Welcome to 2019 one and all!
I am so happy to write those words.
What a privilege to be alive and well and still moving forward in my journey.
Each new day and each new step up the tall ladder of my dreams is a day well spent, and I regret not.
To celebrate the New Year, and also Diary of an Aesthete reaching its first 5000 subscribers, in over 150 countries, I have put together a little collage of pictures from my journey thus far, starting way back in 2014 with my first steps, all the way up to the present.
This really has been such an inspiring journey and I feel so blessed to have connected with such incredible individuals all round the globe, both on the road and through this blog.
Here’s to making dreams come true, to perfect imperfection, to life’s ecstasy, bliss, to chasing skies and taking the long way round…
“It is not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts.” – Qur’an.
Eternal love ❤
Ad Infinitum.
Florence, 2015.
San Pellegrino
Hindu Temple, Karnataka
Great Britain
He Who Walks
Morocco
Venice
Connecting with the riches of the past, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Brussels, Grand Place.
Sunset, Verona
Wild Vultures
The Light, Indian Sky.
Dome of the Rock, Temple Mount
My Italian city… 2015
Children of remote village in Ghana
Digya National Park, Ghana.
pc – Frederick Peters, Greece.
He Who Walk, Bangalore, India.
Ghent
Madrid, Jewish quarter
Sunset Ghana, Kpando
Hunsur, India
Bangalore, 2015.
Florence, Italy, 2014.
Mona monkey
Florence
Bedouins, Israel
people of the village who asked me to take their photo
Feeling the winds of freedom on the Evian Gulf, Greece
Agonda, India
Santo Spirito, Florence. Rose Greenfield
Autosave-File vom d-lab2/3 der AgfaPhoto GmbH
Running barefoot through the desert
Seville
Il Davide. Mon amico.
Venice
bathing child with fevers from malaria in Africa
Lompoul Desert, Senegal
Lompoul Desert, Northern Senegal
Plaza de Espana Seville – a great moment of liberty for me.
Lompoul Desert, Senegal
The Blue Pearl ~ Chefchaouen
With my God Child, Ghana.
Dragonfly, India
Bathing in sacred crocodile pool, The Gambia.
in the might of the Wli Waterfalls, Ghana Africa
wild zebra
On Fathala Wildlife Reserve.
Holy Red ‘Chalice’ Spring
Vatican
On a slum in Ho, Ghana
Tafi Atome, Ghana
On the Farm, Hunsur
Giant standing stone at Avebury.
With Ethel and Mary
With Muslim family, The Gambia.
Deep in the jungle, Maharashtra, India.
Casablanca, Morocco
The Gambia
Wild Cobra, India
Deep in the jungle, Maharashtra, India.
My friend from
India
Fathala Wildlife Reserve
La Almundena, Madrid
At home, Florence, in my birthday suit.
Followed her down to the river to collect water…
Wild bat colony in flight, Ghana
Agii Apostoli, Kalamos
at the Missahoe Orphanage with my babies
Venice
Gambia
In hilltown Coorg, with nuns from Catholic Convent, India.
Touching The Light, Madrid, Spain.
Bracciano
Lompoul Desert, Senegal
Reflecting at Avebury, Womb of the Earth Chakra point.
Monasterio, Fiesole
The Eye
Venice
India
Ghana
smile…
Bridge of Sighs… apparently not for me!
Abdou, my brother
Senegal
With a greek farmer, Agii Apostoli.
Bobor tribe dance which I partook in.
Hindu Temple, Bangalore, India 2015.
Lion pawprint
Senegal during Monsoon season.
Pavel Colon, Seville.
Capitoline Hill, Roma
People of Tafi Atome
Bagbor dances.
Rabat, Morocco 2018.
A wild horse in the New Forest national park.
My Tuareg brother, Noureddine
Burning sun, Agonda, Goa.
India
Florence, Italy. 2016.
Wli Jungle
Missahoe Orphanage, Ghana
Athens, Orthodox Priest
Feeling Freedom of the World’s Greatest Desert
With ‘Prophet George’ The Gambia
Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
‘le grand meaulnes’… Brussels, Belgium
Me and my precious boy
Rome
Before a Hindu wedding, Bangalore, India.
Fez, Morocco, 2018.
Oxford University, England
River children, Adaklu.
– after being submerged in the Holy Chalice Spring, Glastonbury.
Tuscany, Fiesole.
June Morocco 2018.
Sahara with Berber flag
J.F.P.Clayton.
Hunsur, India
Richmond Park
Tagounite, Morocco
Sacred Banyan Tree, Bangalore, India
San Miniato, Florence
India, Jungle Reatreat
Venice, Bridge of Sighs
Accra, Ghana
eating my way through Rome…
Jungle, India
barefoot at the base of a sacred banyan tree, Bangalore, India.
W. Bagley.
J.F.P.Clayton
Ho, Ghana
Tagounite, Morocco
life-modelling in Florence, Italy
Staring out into Rainforests, Western Ghats, India
Florence
Holy Light, India.
a Dieu
Venice
Ghana, with my boy.
Tuscany 2015.
Florence, Italy, 2016, Rose Greenfield
Athens Central
With my slum warriors in Ho, Ghana, where I lived in a house with a tin roof, and had to jump over open-air sewers to get to the streets, for a few weeks.
Masai the Lioness
Ghana.
She was the lady who sold flowers at the temple, Bangalore, India.
Young Boy, Senegal
This llama spat at everybody else but me… I never doubted him.
Crossing The Gambia river.
One skin…
Venice…
Ponte Vecchio
wli lower falls
self portrait, jungle, Maharashtra, India.
Florence 2018.
Avalon
India
Me and my boy, Ghana
Missahoe Orphanage, Ghana
Mysore, India
Shaking hands.
life-modelling in Florence, Italy
Venice
Trekking through Digya Jungle, Ghana.
At Missahoe Children’s Home, Ghana
Wild peacock
Charcoal Tattoo, Ghana
Seville
with modern Bedouins, Israel
the Python and the Man, The Gambia,
With Desmond, my Ghana Starchild.
Slef portrait in Agonda, India.
Berber Boy, Sahara Desert, Morocco
Jungle Prince… he outdid me.
Rescuing a baby squirrel in forests of Tafi Atome
Bangalore
Self portrait.
Erg Chigaga
on a nomadic Berber camp, Morocco
Lady of Rufisque, Senegal
Mediterranean Waters, Greece
Casablanca, Morocco
Florence, Italy.
Charles, who led me up the mountain…
Ghana Africa
Seville
White man of Erg Chigaga
at the Grande Mosquée Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco
Self-portrait. Ghana.
Bracciano
Chef, Morocco, June 2018.
Jungle Retreat, Masinagudi
Gambia
dancing with Bagbor Tribe around the fire
Ghana
On a slum in Ho, Ghana
Greece 2014.
India
at an oasis, Sahara, Morocco
Lago d’Iseo
Aire de Sevilla
My good friend in Hunsur, India, after swimming in the lake together.
Monas
Pavel Colon, Seville.
Ghana
Bergamo.
Sorisole, Italy
Sahara Sky, Morocco, Africa
Ghana, Africa
Holy Water
At a Hindu wedding, Bangalore, India.
Holy Light, Hunsur, India.
Bangalore, India, 2015
San Lorenzo, Florence 2015.
Self-portrait, Agonda, India
Croc, The Gambia
in a Bedouin Tent in the Negev Desert, Israel
in the might of the Wli waterfalls, Ghana, during monsoon season.
Plaza de Espana, Sevilla
Ancient temple, Mysore.
Fez Medina.
Greece, 2014
Erg Chigaga, Sahara, Morocco
Sitting beneath ancient trees at Avebury, Womb of the Earth
Como
alone in Western Ghats Jungle, India
Remote village, name and location unknown, Ghana
Cape Sounion
pc – Pavel Colon. Seville, Spain.
Sahara Camp
Richmond Park, London
Venice, first time.
Morocco
Temple monkeys, Mysore.
Florence
In the desert, Senegal.
Bangalore, India
Vatican City
Venice, Italy…
Tuscany
Venice, 2014.
London
Wild elephant, Maharashtra
Hunsur, India
The power of sea. Agii Apostoli, Greece. pc – Frederick Peters.
The Gambia
bathing baby elephant, mudumalai national park, India
Athena
Wli, Ghana.
Grand Place Brussels
Tuscany
Avalon
with the rangers… Digya National Park, Ghana
Italy.
in the Power of Wli Falls
My very own turban being fitted by Tuareg, Erg Chigaga, Morocco.
L’erba magica.
Bergamo, Italy.
on top of the Glastonbury Tor.
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What glorious photos. You are such a beautiful man in all ways. And what a journey you’ve had friend. I’m so glad your health has allowed you to continue this amazing path of yours and to support you in sharing it with all you meet and all of us! I look forward to crossing paths someday and perhaps sharing the road for a bit 🙂
Many blessings for a joy filled 2019. May this be the year, and soon, that the shift into the light is finally and fully ushered onto this planet forever more.
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Thank you!!
I have been very blessed indeed, and you bless me more-so. My health has held up and I’m so thankful for that fact. My soul has a fire that, if fuelled, cannot be overcome. I’ve felt this so many times. I just have to manage my fire; sometimes it burns a little too low. Creating things and connecting with people and places brings me to life, quite literally.
Life meanders much this year, already bringing me a host of unexpected treasures to look forward to… it’s so lovely to have already done so much ~ now I have nothing to prove, can sit back and wait for the stars to speak to me their truth and plans… I’m always ready for the call.
I have every confidence that we will cross paths, my friend. When the stars speak it so.
Love Jx
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A beautiful kaleidoscope of photos. If we were to sit somewhere in the sky watching mother earth turn around slowly I guess we would have this view. It’s got everything, man, woman, the five elements, flora, fauna, edifices, everything brimming with a mystic quality, as it shall be if we see them with our five senses and our heart, putting aside our judgement. Beautiful inspiring work.
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Thank you 🙂
That’s such a lovely image you have created in my mind. Thank you for understanding my vision so well.
Jx
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You must be, in some not normal way, blessed. Your way has been amazing, to see all those places, to feel them…
Do you ever feel fear?
The photo collection is breathtaking. It has been very interesting to travel with you, in my armchair.
Have a great year 2019!
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Perhaps, you’re right… I don’t profess to know. I know only that when I travel alone something very special happens in the air around me… I feel different, everything feels different. I even move differently… speak differently sometimes.
But, yes, I feel Fear all the time. It’s like every emotion ~ it passes. I don’t nurture that feeling. I discard it at the first chance… like I do with all useless things.
I think that is the only key really, I feel fear, I don’t pretend not to, and, yet, it doesn’t stop me. Once I am ‘there’, the other side of dreaming, the ‘reality’ part, then the magic takes over… and I enjoy the ride.
Wishing you all the best with the new year.
❤
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You had wonderful journey. It had been pleasant to follow you throughout the year. I’m looking forward to your next stories..
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It really has been!
Thank you for following this tale.
Jx
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Thank you for your beautiful collection of visuals from your life’s adventure,
Deirdre
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My absolute pleasure.
Thanks for commenting.
Jx
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