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.
alone in Western Ghats Jungle, India
Ho, Ghana
In hilltown Coorg, with nuns from Catholic Convent, India.
Mysore, India
My friend from
Florence 2018.
Plaza de Espana Seville – a great moment of liberty for me.
with the rangers… Digya National Park, Ghana, 2016.
In the desert, Senegal. 2016
bathing baby elephant, mudumalai national park, India, 2015
Bangalore, India, 2015
Self-portrait. Ghana.
Athens, Orthodox Priest
Santo Spirito, Florence. Rose Greenfield
Deep in the jungle, Maharashtra, India.
England
Ghana
Sunset, Verona
She was the lady who sold flowers at the temple, Bangalore, India.
Connecting with the riches of the past, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Running barefoot through the desert
At home, Florence, in my birthday suit.
Sahara 2017
Rabat, Morocco 2018.
Lompoul Desert, 2016
Brussels, Grand Place.
Bobor tribe dance which I partook in.
With ‘Prophet George’ The Gambia
J.F.P.Clayton
the Python and the Man, The Gambia,
Bangalore, 2015.
Mona monkey
Crossing The Gambia river.
The Blue Pearl ~ Chefchaouen
on a nomadic Berber camp, Morocco
India
A wild horse in the New Forest national park.
in the might of the Wli waterfalls, Ghana, during monsoon season.
Wild bat colony in flight, Ghana
He Who Walks
Hunsur, India
Accra, Ghana
On the Farm, Hunsur
life-modelling in Florence, Italy
Self-portrait, Agonda, India
India
Tuscany, Fiesole.
W. Bagley.
Children of remote village in Ghana
Florence
The Eye
Gambia
Ghana 2017
Chefchaouen, 2018
Ghana
Ghana 2017
Croc, The Gambia
Sorisole, Italy
Aire de Sevilla
at an oasis, Sahara, 2017
Deep in the jungle, Maharashtra, India.
Bangalore
Erg Chigaga, Sahara, Morocco
On a slum in Ho, Ghana
Young Boy, Senegal, 2016
Sahara Sky
At Missahoe Children’s Home, Ghana, 2015
Madrid, Jewish quarter
Avalon
Grand Place Brussels
Lompoul Desert, Senegal
Burning sun, Agonda, Goa.
My Tuareg brother, Noureddine
barefoot at the base of a sacred banyan tree, Bangalore, India.
Sacred Banyan Tree, Bangalore, India
Ghent
Morocco
Slef portrait in Agonda, India.
Venice
Pavel Colon, Seville.
Morocco
Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
Tuscany
Capitoline Hill, Roma
Vatican
Vatican City
Fez Medina.
Athena
in the might of the Wli Waterfalls, Ghana Africa
Ghana Nov 2017.
Sahara with Berber flag, 2017
Shaking hands.
At a Hindu wedding, Bangalore, 2015.
Feeling Freedom of the World’s Greatest Desert
Feeling the winds of freedom on the Evian Gulf, Greece, 2014
Hunsur, India
Digya National Park, Ghana.
smile…
Venice
Bergamo.
San Miniato, Florence
Florence, Italy, 2014.
Wli Jungle
Mediterranean Waters, Greece
Holy Light, India.
a Dieu
On Fathala Wildlife Reserve, 2016
Jungle Retreat, Masinagudi
Greece, 2014
With Ethel and Mary
2017 Mount of Olives
Venice
Athens Central
wli lower falls
Hindu Temple, Bangalore, India 2015.
Oxford University, England
Ghana
Cape Sounion
Casablanca, Morocco
Venice, first time.
Venice, 2014.
Ghana Africa
Missahoe Orphanage, Ghana
Rome
at the Grande Mosquée Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco
‘le grand meaulnes’… Brussels, Belgium
Plaza de Espana, Sevilla
Ghana.
India
Erg Chigaga
The power of sea. Agii Apostoli, Greece. pc – Frederick Peters.
Ancient temple, Mysore.
The Light, Indian Sky.
Ghana 2015
India, Jungle Reatreat
Ghana
Holy Red ‘Chalice’ Spring
White man of Erg Chigaga
Seville
Venice
– after being submerged in the Holy Chalice Spring, Glastonbury.
Agii Apostoli, Kalamos
Florence, 2015.
Me and my boy, Ghana 2015
London
Reflecting at Avebury, Womb of the Earth Chakra point.
Lompoul Desert, Senegal 2016
Il Davide. Mon amico.
J.F.P.Clayton.
Gambia
2016. Wli Forests.
Dragonfly, India
With Muslim family, The Gambia.
at the Missahoe Orphanage with my babies
My very own turban being fitted by Tuareg, Erg Chigaga, Morocco.
Richmond Park
Ghana 2017
Fez, Morocco, 2018.
Venice, Italy… back in 2013.
Rescuing a baby squirrel in forests of Tafi Atome
The Gambia, 2016
In the desert, 2017
Tagounite, Morocco
India
India
Sunset Ghana, Kpando
Missahoe Orphanage, Ghana
Florence, Italy. 2016.
Ghana, Africa
This llama spat at everybody else but me… I never doubted him.
Italy.
Masai the Lioness
La Almundena, Madrid
in a Bedouin Tent in the Negev Desert, Israel
Wli, Ghana.
Morocco
San Pellegrino
Lompoul Desert, 2016
My Italian city… 2015
June Morocco 2018.
in the Power of Wli Falls
Venice
Casablanca, Morocco
San Lorenzo, Florence 2015.
Ponte Vecchio
eating my way through Rome…
Ghana, with my boy. 2017
on top of the Glastonbury Tor.
people of the village who asked me to take their photo
Venice
Monas
Wild Vultures
Tafi Atome, Ghana
Trekking through Digya Jungle, Ghana.
Lion pawprint, 2016, Senegal
On a slum in Ho, Ghana
L’erba magica.
People of Tafi Atome
Charcoal Tattoo, Ghana
Great Britain
pc – Pavel Colon. Seville, Spain.
life-modelling in Florence, Italy
Bracciano
River children, Adaklu.
Abdou, my brother
Greece 2014
Bathing in sacred crocodile pool, The Gambia.
Charles, who led me up the mountain…
Tuscany 2015.
Senegal
Bagbor dances, 2016.
Avalon
Temple monkeys, Mysore. 2015
Wild Cobra, India, 2015
Chef, Morocco, June 2018.
Before a Hindu wedding, Bangalore, India.
Holy Water
Wild peacock
Como
Bergamo, Italy.
With my slum warriors in Ho, Ghana, 2015
One skin…
Staring out into Rainforests, Western Ghats, India
Bedouins, West Bank, 2017
Touching The Light, Madrid, Spain.
Monasterio, Fiesole
Pavel Colon, Seville.
Lago d’Iseo
With a greek farmer, Agii Apostoli.
Venice…
Seville
Florence, Italy.
Hindu Temple, Karnataka
Florence, Italy, 2016, Rose Greenfield
wild zebra
Nov 2017 Ghana
Remote village, name and location unknown, Ghana
Jungle, India
My good friend in Hunsur, India, after swimming in the lake together.
Dalai the Lama. Rest friend…
Florence
Dome of the Rock, Temple Mount
He Who Walk, Bangalore, India.
Venice, Bridge of Sighs
bathing child with fevers from malaria in Africa
Bangalore, India
Me and my precious boy
Greece 2014.
Wild elephant, Maharashtra
Sahara Camp
Giant standing stone at Avebury.
With my God Child, Ghana.
Bracciano
Berber Boy, Sahara Desert, Morocco
Senegal during Monsoon season.
With Desmond, my Ghana Starchild.
dancing with Bagbor Tribe around the fire
Richmond Park, London
Florence
Jerusalem 2017
The Gambia, 2016
Tagounite, Morocco
Agonda, India
Bridge of Sighs… apparently not for me!
Ghana 2017
Jungle Prince… he outdid me.
Autosave-File vom d-lab2/3 der AgfaPhoto GmbH
Sitting beneath ancient trees at Avebury, Womb of the Earth
Tuscany
Holy Light, Hunsur, India.
Lady of Rufisque, Senegal
Followed her down to the river to collect water…
India
Fathala Wildlife Reserve
with modern Bedouins, Israel
Self portrait.
self portrait, jungle, Maharashtra, India.
Ghana, 2017
Seville
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My brother recommended I might like this blog. He was entirely right. This post truly made my day. You can not imagine simply how much time I had spent for this info! Thanks!
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Thank you much!!
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A pocket full of life!
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It’s been quite a ride…
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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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