First Nature Impressions At Tafelkop The deer at Tafelkop Picture taken by Matilda Angus The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Picture taken by Matilda Angus Music This week we have different songs for the Afrikaans and English blog posts. We didn't want to choose, because both speak to us in our setting and on our journey. About the English choice: in contemplative spirituality nothing is trivial, not even a Disney movie. The music in the Afrikaans blog? You'll have to go and listen - Afrikaans song Our blessing to you comes from Deut 33:13-16 (ESV) Blessed by the Lord be your land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath, with the choicest fruits of the sun and the rich yield of the months, with the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills, with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwells in the bush....
The Restory is a Retreat Centre nestled against Tafelkop, a singular mountain head near Wakkerstroom, South Africa. Here we live a simple life as contemplatives. It is a place of re-connection: with ourselves, people, Nature, Silence and Creativity. Our retreats are aimed at this. Our conversations, writing and art centre around the univocity of life. We need a place that reminds us that we are all one. The Restory hopes to be such a place and space.