Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round and pluck blackberries. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Very early on Friday morning, I went into the meadow behind the house to pick wild flowers for Matilda. The grass was soggy wet with dew. Wearing shorts I put on my gumboots to keep at least my feet dry. Later, back at the house after breakfast, I discovered that the dew on my legs had dried into a sticky film. It had the same feeling as the overspray getting onto my skin when I apply varnish with the spray gun to a work piece. Stuck all over my legs were a multitude of grass seeds, hitching a ride. In an ingenious manner, the gras...
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.