Today I want to post the first in a series of poems on “today”. Lately they just came to me, so I have to listen. Let’s start at the basics. To all of us who are – or trying to be - so good, still model children – even at 50, always striving, pillars of the community, heavy-laden with the burden of Ought-to’s. Today TODAY I will not live up to my potential. TODAY I will not relate well to my peer group. TODAY I will not contribute in class. I will not volunteer one thing. TODAY I will not strive to do better. TODAY I will not achieve or adjust or grow enriched or get involved. I will not put my hand up even if the teacher is wrong and I can prove it. TODAY I might eat the eraser off my pencil. I’ll look at clouds. I’ll be late. I don’t think I’ll wash. I NEED A REST. ...
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.