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The Front Porch
This is our front porch. A few years ago, weather permitting, we started eating our meals here. And it changed our rapport with the neighbourhood. When neighbours walk by, we exchange greetings. A Kalimera here and a Kalimera there has … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Living With Less, Paros
Tagged changes, interrelating, La Sussurrata, neighborhood, porch
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Alone
Anne Frank started her famous diary because she was lonely and needed a friend. Loneliness was a major theme and she wrote: “You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s … Continue reading
Making friends with a book
With so many people in the world, why should anyone ever be lonely? Ona Vitkus was a 104 year-old Lithuanian living alone in Portland, Maine. As a part of a community service project, an 11 year old scout went to … Continue reading
Elena Ferrante, the storyteller
Mrs. Asher was my middle school English teacher. She had us diagram sentences and write numerous book reports. Novels, she said, are based on one of three themes: man against nature, man against man, man against himself. Simply put, novels … Continue reading
Songs and scented sighs
Parisian Perfumes 1988 Amarcord*: One summer evening while walking on Amorgos, my nose was unexpectedly bombarded by the smell of honeysuckle and, zap, suddenly I was in San Antonio, Texas where I grew up. My childhood neighborhood was full … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Healing
Tagged Amarcord, honeysuckle, interrelating, memory, perfume, senses, smell, The Perfume Collector
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The Narrative Within 