There is a video clip on YouTube that I watch ever so often. At least once a month. It is a constant dose of energy and motivation and to top all of that, it has the makings of a wonderful story. I’m talking about Susan Boyle’s first appearance on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009. The rest, as they say, after that audition is history. There is the huge success of her CD’s (her debut album, I Dreamed a Dream , being the UK best-selling debut album of all time), her fame and performances with her own idols and heroes like Elaine Paige, her fortune. Type in Susan Boyle on Google and the list of results tell you that she is now indeed a member of the well-known on the international stage. The British press often refer to her as SuBo, their pet name for her. I think her rags to riches story plays into what so many want their stories to be. It is exactly what those hundreds of thousands who queue for an audition in Idols, America’s got Talent, Britain’s got Talent, The X-fact...
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.