The Restory Retreat Centre

Photograph by Matilda Angus “When we build let us think we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work that our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone upon stone, that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our fathers did for us." ~ John Ruskin ~  v  ~ “Do all your work as though you had a thousand years to live, and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow.” ~ Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker movement Our house was built in 1910. Which leads to a number of interesting experiences. People in their fifties who grew up in the surrounding area would ask us, “Can we come and look at the old house again, please?” And when they come, they walk from room to room, eyes tear-filled as childhood memories flood back. “As children...