The Restory Retreat Centre

 Gradually there's a build up towards the move to Tafelkop in about 2 months time. With the current owners still there and busy packing, I went over to be shown where  electricity cables run, and distribution boxes and drains are located. On the way to look at the fountain that provides the house with water, there is this beautiful waterfall in the stream. A whole new world to discover and become familiar with. George Angus

The house It grows larger wall after wall sliding on some miraculous arrangement of panels, blond and weightless as balsa, making space for windows,alcoves, more rooms, stairways and passages,all bathed in light,with here and there the green flower of a tree, vines,streams casually breaking through- what a change from the cramped room at the centre where I began,where i crouched and was safe, but could hardly breathe! Day after day I labour at it; night after night I keep going- I'm clearing new ground I'm lugging boards I'm measuring, I'm hanging sheets of glass I'm nailing down the hardwoods The thresholds- I'm hinging the doors- Once they are up they will lift their easy latches, they will open like wings. Mary Oliver from Dream works 1986 I came across this poem by Mary Oliver in 2009,long before any thought of starting a new life elsewhere came to mind. I thought it beautiful and loved its spaciousness. I felt m...