The Restory Retreat Centre

  The Contemplative Life ~ ❖ ~ Living the contemplative life is learning to dance with the depths of divinity in everyday life.                                                                                        James Finley ~ ❖ ~ The Conversation Elements From The Conversation  Music With love and the deep wish that you may have an adventurous journey.  George & Matilda

Note: Matilda and I attended our first Living School Symposium from 24 - 26 August in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was the official beginning of our 2 year program at the Center for Action and Contemplation's Living School. We arrived back in SA on Wednesday evening but were so tired and disoriented after our 40 hour return journey that we had to stay over in Johannesburg for a day before undertaking the 4 hour trip back home. On Friday night we finally arrived back here in the Balele mountains. It is all so much - the whole process, our marathon trips, America, the people, our peer group where most of our work and study will be done, the Symposium. I am filled to the brim and do not know what to do with it. I would love to dump it all in one go onto everyone asking, "And so,how was it?" I just can't. Just as it is impossible to pass Table Mountain through a funnel down a little bird's throat. And besides, as Richard Rohr said at the symposium, ...

Photo by Matilda Angus An update is long due on where we are on Adventure: Living School. (See The Living School  and The road to Gaza ). We left off in The road to Gaza  where we applied for financial assistance for tuition at the Living School and were awaiting their decision. We have made it out for ourselves that should we be awarded less than 100% it would be impossible for us to accept the invitation to be part of the 2016 intake. Then the email arrived. Matilda and George, The scholarship committee met and congratulations you have been awarded $3600 each in tuition assistance for the Living School ...Welcome to the Living School. All the Best, Tom 100% Tuition assistance. For the both of us. We couldn't be more surprised. Then elated. Then scared. But we knew without a doubt that there was no turning back from this huge door that has swung open for us. So here we are, filling in the online application forms for our American visas and sco...