Photo by D.M. Cobb I get frustrated and despondent when spurts of creativity are followed by the Lull. A void that opens up inside me with inspiration a far-off and unreachable destination. Our dream for Wakkerstroom is also in this same boat, aimlessly adrift an unnaturally calm sea. We seem to make no progress, although weeks go by full of busyness and work orders keep pouring in after months of fiscal drought for George. It takes discernment to determine whether we ourselves are responsible for this unsettling stage. Should we go about it more aggressively? Market our dream more extensively? Get sponsorships? Prioritise? Leap? Most surely we can give attention to all of these, but not everything is within our power to take us to the next stage. For that we have to be willing to wait. To trust. And to watch for the first sign of the rising wind, so we can set sail. In a time like this, it helps to read words like these: ...
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.