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