Suzanne Valadon - Maurice Utrillo as a boy, drying up the back I imagine myself walking on the beach of images next to the sea of words. Mostly I just listen, or look. Sometimes I stop to pick up what the sea has washed ashore. I keep my findings in a drawer and on quiet days I take them out and let them speak to me. At other times I feel their weight in my palm and run my fingers along their lines. Lately I am fascinated by b eautiful descriptions in literature of the human body or lack thereof. ~ ~ o ~ ~ Mr. Duffy lived at a little distance from his body. ~ James Joyce She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season. ~ P.G. Wodehouse Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed. ~ Revd Sydney Smith Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed. ~ Blaise ...
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.