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