St. John's Cross, Iona (Photo by Anne-Marie Ellis) Chant for Samhain (Celtic New Year) A year of beauty. A year of plenty. A year of planting. A year of harvest. A year of forests. A year of healing. A year of vision. A year of passion. A year of rebirth. A year of rebirth. This year may we renew the earth. Let it begin with each step we take. Let it begin with each change we make. Let it begin with each chain we break. And let it begin every time we awake. The Celtic spirituality is strongly underpinned by elements of Creation Centered spirituality. This is presenting itself more and more as I am discovering how nature and creation lie at the heart of what I could refer to as my soul's language. It might be a good idea to explore this further in my writing and I will definitely be back on this theme. I was delighted when I found this beautiful chant to be used on the eve of November 1. A couple of days late for the occasion, though, for Novembe...
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.