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