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