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