The Restory Retreat Centre

Pause We are tired. The week was and the weekend is very busy and there was little time to just catch our breath. We need it. That's why we create this moment of silence first and foremost for ourselves, but we like to share it. Nothing deep. Just peaceful. So that, when that little gap in your day opens up, you can put your feet up, pour a cup of tea and take a deep breath. ~ ❖ ~ 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                                                             ~ ❖ ~ With much love. George & Mati...

  Jargon Stretched ~ ❖ ~ Origins of the word "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 ~ ❖ ~ The Conversation "In the English conversation I am more lenient with my jargon-words." (George)...

  Meraki   The Conversation  Big apology! Meraki, even though it has all the characteristics of a Japanese word, is not a Japanese word. We discovered after our conversation that it is actually a Greek word. Elements From The Conversation  Music With all our love. George & Matilda

  Painting: The New Born Child, by Georges de la Tour I cannot tell you how the light comes. What I know is that it is more ancient than imagining. That it travels across an astounding expanse to reach us. That it loves searching out what is hidden, what is lost, what is forgotten or in peril or in pain. That it has a fondness for the body, for finding its way toward flesh, for tracing the edges of form, for shining forth through the eye, the hand, the heart. I cannot tell you how the light comes, but that it does. That it will. That it works its way into the deepest dark that enfolds you, though it may seem long ages in coming or arrive in a shape you did not foresee. And so may we this day turn ourselves toward it. May we lift our faces to let it find us. May we bend our bodies to follow the arc it makes. May we open and open more and open still to the blessed light that comes. —Jan Richardson               

  Paul And Mary On Prayer The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation  According to Paul and Mary, the following video has all the elements of a prayer. Music  With much love and wishes for a spacious life. George & Matilda   

   Feminine and Masculine Energy  The Conversation Elements From The Conversation  A poem by Nancy Shaffer  which beautifully expresses the elements to be found in feminine energy 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 believ...