https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0jg7gxh/less-is-more-can-degrowth-save-the-world-

Sitting in the cube, I was challenged by the lack of spirit, initiative, critical thinking, and expression.  Life was coalescing into a series of movie frames.  The lack of time to sit, reflect, and express – the trifecta – is what inspired me to sit and dedicate my recollection of Life to Life.

Wishing the reader health and balance.

PROGENITORS 

Andros, island of skilled furniture artisans. 

 

George Manetas, residing in Kapparia (named for “kappari,” the Greek word for capers).  The homes in the village were built of stone, with wood frames.  The Manetas home overlooked the gorge towards Ormos Korthiou, located at the southeastern part of the island.  Almond trees greeted visitors as they entered the courtyard.  George and his wife, (researching), had ? children, the oldest son named Alexandros.  The family was engaged in furniture making.  By the mid-nineteenth century,  Alexandros Manetas and his wife Maria (nee Desipri, born in Triantaro (on the neighboring ialand of Tinos) had three children: George, Irene, and Despina.  At some point in the 1850s, Alexandros decided to expand the family business in the form of a steam-powered furniture factory in Smyrna, Asia Minor.  Inhabited by a predominantly Greek population engaged in numerous forms of commerce, establishing the pre-eminence of Smyrna as a foremost player in Mediterranean commerce.  Alexandros’ son, George, was to head the venture in Smyrna.

 

To be continued

Therapy of music and light .. Θεραπεία μουσικής και φωτός …

Στιγμιότυπο της ζωής μας .. Snapshot of our lives .. Ραφηνα-Rafina

Variation on Dance of Zalongou, commemorating the refusal of women of Souli (Epirus) to submit to the occupying forces, instead forming a dance during which they sang the melody “Ehete Yeia Vryssoules,” as one-by-one danced off the cliff’s edge with their infants… (1803)

Reaching out to cultivate relationships,
in the hope of bearing fruit;
Past and present,
acquaintances, friends, relatives, new faces;

Mixed results,
expectations dampened by reality;
Fair-weather Januses,
relegated to Life’s footnotes

End-result,
crystallization,
friendship embraced by authenticity

OM
15eme octobre 2023

 

Ελπίδες και προορισμούς 
θολώνει η σίτα
Μεσ´την μάντρα,
καθημερινότητα

Η Καίτη τραγουδάει
να διώξει τα σύννεφα,
Που νά'ταν εδώ 
να διώξει το νέφος 

Προϊστάμενοι,
ποιο θεό να διαλέξουν
της παλιάς, ή της καινής;

Το μέλλον,
σε εκκρεμότητα

ΟΜ
Έτος κορονοϊού Α
27 Απριλίου 2020


IN SEARCH OF OXYTOCIN

Hope and destinations,
fogged by the screen
In the pen,
daily routine

Ketty sings,
to disperse the clouds,
Where is she now,
to clear the dark one

First estate,
which god to choose,
from the old, or new?

The future,
pending
 

OM
20 April 2020
COVID I
Ashburn. VA

The foundation is shaky,
exposing the mask,
of the ritual and its shamans

Where substance,
subverted to sickness,
leaves trauma
in the name of profit

Your time was borrowed,
as you basked in the limelight,
yard after yard,
divinity the goal line

You tried to rule the field,
but no more;
Costing your religion and temple,
the price of dishonor and hypocrisy



OM, 2011