The Restory Retreat Centre

Bounty from the farm: Two crates of  freshly picked, plump passion fruit Irresistible insides!  Passion preserved. In South Africa we call them granadillas. But I prefer the name passion fruit, like they are also known widely. This name is derived from an analogy drawn centuries ago by Spanish Missionaries to South America between the flower's anatomy and Christ's Crucifixion. They called it Flor de las cinco lagas (flower of the five wounds) .  Hence the name passion fruit.  But for me it has more to do with a sensation bordering on bliss when I take a mouthful of fragrant pulp. It is near impossible to describe the taste: a tantalizing tartness combined with something like a flowery perfume fills your mouth and overwhelms your tastebuds before it slips down your throat with a silky coolness. I can never get enough of passion fruit. So it felt like Christmas when Leon gifted me with two huge crates filled with passion fruit that didn't make the ...

Exploring the Enneagram through Art (continued) I want to explain the different types as they are identified in the Enneagram of Personality by using images of the sculptures we made for our exhibition, Your Signature, My Life.  Our personalities are formed in our attempts to protect and defend our essential being, or essence. By adopting coping mechanisms in childhood, we survive the physical world, but get cut off from our essential nature. In each sculpture, we portrayed the personality type as the imprint or Signature that has been stamped onto us. The essence, or Life , which has to be allowed to surface in order for us to fully realize ourselves, is shown to be present always, but nuanced and even hidden. By exploring the Enneagram in this way it helps us to get insight into the deeper meaning of our life that we not always have access to through cognitive thinking alone. In The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Riso and Russ Hudson, they "have named personalit...