I feel ashamed when I look at my list of packed boxes: meticulously numbered and with content and destination neatly noted. I started this out very enthusiastically, being strongly advised to do so by my friends, but the variety of handwriting on the list stands witness to the help I had, especially towards the end and only days before the movers were due to arrive. 92 boxes. I have no idea how I had managed to gather so much in the five short years I have lived in my city home! I don’t recall that the move into the house was such a big affair. We managed just fine by ourselves: using a couple of bakkies (ldv’s) and a couple of extra hired hands. But somehow, the many cupboards and lovely, roomy spaces started filling up. To boot we installed a ceramics studio in the double garage with two huge kilns and many shelves, a potter’s wheel, work bench, slab roller and an industrial sized sink with two deep basins. My ceramic work started spilling into the house as sculptures and ot...
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.