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