Internet image -Source unknown The way some, OK, many women are drawn to shoes, I am drawn to books. Or to be more exact, to second hand book stores. I couldn't care less what pair of shoes I'm book browsing in, but the feeling of finding the perfect book is very similar to finding the perfect fit. It is rather uncanny how, out of the clear blue, an image of the interior of one of my favourite haunts will pop up and stay with me. Every now and again gently nudging me with the view of a shelf of books, the smell of old print when I open one of my own collection. And I know: I am being summoned. There is a book waiting for me. As with the Sunbirdish , it didn't happen overnight. It dawned on me that something was afoot when, almost without fail, I was told by George as I presented him with a find, that it has long been on his wish list. I know about his wish lists on Loot, Amazon and privately kept, but to keep track would mean carting a...
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.