Try this: Happy water! Spring water infused with lemongrass and chilled with iced berries “Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy, one would know the things that were necessary for one’s life.” Joanna Field When Julie Andrews sang about her favourite things in the classic film, The Sound of Music, it sounded like she knew exactly what made her happy: Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things ... Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings... http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thesoundofmusic/myfavoritethings.htm Lyrics that make you swoon by the sheer joy that the images induce. But we don’t often list things that make us happy together with life’s necessities. It’s as i...
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.