I take Steven, the builder, back home, his bicycle on the back of the bakkie. He says when he is working late, his sister worries. She’s concerned that he might have been injured during the day. That he has fallen off the scaffolding. When we stop at his house, his goats and their babies recognize his voice. In the fading light they come to him.
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.