The Restory Retreat Centre

Verposing Ons is moeg. Die week en naweek was en is baie besig en daar was min tyd om net 'n bietjie asem te skep. Ons het behoefte daaraan. Daarom skep ons hierdie oomblik van stilte in die eerste plek vir ons, maar ons deel dit graag. Niks dieps nie. Net rustig. Sodat, wanneer daardie klein gaping in jou dag oopval, jy jou voete kan lig, 'n koppie tee kan skink en diep kan asemhaal. ~ ❖ ~ Clearing   Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. Only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worth of rescue.   – Martha Postlewaite                                                             ~ ❖ ~ Met ons liefde. George ...

  Jargon Gerek ~ ❖ ~ Oorsprong van die woord "Jargon" "Jargon,” adopted from French in the 14th century, originally meant “unintelligible talk, gibberish; chattering, jabbering.” It wryly took on its current meaning, “phraseology peculiar to a sect or profession,” in the 1650s due to the fact that such speech was unintelligible to outsiders. https://uselessetymology.com/2018/05/23/the-etymologies-of-jargon-jabber-and-gibberish/ "The French word is believed to have been derived from the Latin word gaggire, meaning "to chatter", which was used to describe speech that the listener did not understand. The word may also come from Old French jargon meaning "chatter of birds". Middle English also has the verb jargounenmeaning "to chatter", or "twittering", deriving from Old French." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon ~ ❖ ~ Die Gesprek "In die Engelse opname werk ek sagter met my jargon-woorde." (George) Elemente Uit ...

Meraki   Die Gesprek  Groot ekskuus! Meraki, al het hy al die kenmerke van 'n Japannese woord, is nie 'n Japannese woord nie. Ons ontdek toe na ons gesprek dat dit eintlik 'n Griekse woord is. Elemente Uit Die Gesprek  Musiek Met al ons liefde. George & Matilda

  Vroulike en Manlike Energie Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek 'n Gedig van Nancy Shaffer wat die elemente wat in vroulike energie voorkom, so mooi uitbeeld. That Which Holds All Because she wanted everyone to feel included in her prayer, she said right at the beginning several names for the Holy: Spirit, she said, Holy One, Mystery, God but then thinking these weren’t enough ways of addressing that which cannot be fully addressed, she added particularities, saying, Spirit of Life, Spirit of Love, Ancient Holy One, Mystery We Will Not Ever Fully Know, Gracious God, and also Spirit of This Earth, God of Sarah, Gaia, Thou and then, tongue loosened, she fell to naming superlatives as well: Most Creative One, Greatest Source, Closest Hope --- even though superlatives for the Sacred seemed to her probably redundant; but then she couldn’t stop: One Who Made the Stars, she said, although she knew technically a number of those present didn’t believe the stars had been made by anyone or...