tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37830038009653618102024-03-05T17:35:48.979-08:00Eido Frances Carney at Olympia Zen CenterTemple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-50706341237898041262016-05-30T16:36:00.000-07:002016-05-30T16:36:10.120-07:00In recent years, my brother<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Memorial Day Services at Olympic Memorial Cemetery in Olympia</td></tr>
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John Carney, a Vietnam veteran,<br />
has written a new poem for each<br />
Memorial<br />
Day. Once again,<br />
we have a poem<br />
he has just<br />
penned and<br />
I'd like to share it.<br />
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Memorial Day - 2016 - John Carney</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Memorial Day I think especially </span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About the War in Vietnam </span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At this time I give some reflection </span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About a country that gave a damn</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was not fought in silence</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The country was in an uproar</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many argued against it</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not believing what it was for</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There were marches even riots</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sit-ins and protests everywhere</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mostly conducted by the young</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But most everyone had some care</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And the so named “Silent Majority”</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Who somehow believed it was right </span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was an obligation and many felt</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There was a reason we had to fight</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Was it truly just a civil war?</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Was communism really our threat?</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was argued over dinner tables</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the papers and on the TV set </span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And the generals weren’t sure</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How quite to fight such a foe</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Making it that much harder </span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To believe our forces should go</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Those who returned could face scorn</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">From the most ardent voices opposed</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There were no parades and few ceremonies</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Supportive songs weren’t being composed</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many came back in silence</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Very few stories were being told</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The feeling in the country</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Was confused and sometimes cold </span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To this day I still have some doubt</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And arguments still abound</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Much is now just opinion</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though some information can be found </span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yet what about South Korea?</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And the island of Taiwan?</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Was that war and our threat of force</span></div>
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<span style="text-shadow: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Different than aiding Saigon?</span></div>
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Khrushchev said he’d “Bury Us” </div>
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The “Cuban Missile Crisis” was real</div>
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Eastern Europe was locked down</div>
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The Soviets showed great zeal</div>
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So what did it really matter?</div>
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Do we know what it really meant?</div>
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Now with Iraq and Afghanistan</div>
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New forces have been sent</div>
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Yet now days our mindset has changed</div>
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The country says thank a Vet</div>
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For them there is no blame</div>
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More a sense of national debt</div>
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But this was not written to re-argue</div>
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The merit of that war</div>
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That left so many of our young</div>
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Dead on a foreign shore</div>
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But that maybe it would be better</div>
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If everyone could be called to fight</div>
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The whole country would feel a duty</div>
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To be sure our cause was right</div>
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Then the nation as a whole</div>
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Would remember those we lost</div>
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And take a moment of silence</div>
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Noting what it really cost</div>
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Memorial Day is the time to pay</div>
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For those brothers, now sisters too</div>
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And the loved ones they leave behind</div>
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The respect and honor they are due</div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: large;">This is a handy notebook size about the same as a composition book, almost 100 pages, with space to reflect on assigned questions. The book opens with some consideration of the problems of discipline and lifestyle and then moves on to three sections called MEDITATE, LISTEN, WRITE. The chapters are short and lead the journal writer into the material of reflection. If you work with a teacher, this is a good tool for staying on track. If you are new to Zen or you are without a teacher, this is also an excellent tool to lead you through a consideration of questions about Zen practice and Buddhism. You don't have to be a great writer to do some soul searching in the privacy of your workbook. ENTERING THE STREAM is the first in a series with succeeding ZEN JOURNAL GUIDES coming out in future months.</span></div>
Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-31880173624290430562015-03-01T23:27:00.000-08:002015-03-02T09:31:43.028-08:00A Parish Near Ebbets Field<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I wrote this novel a few years before going to Japan. It's a bucket list publication that I still enjoy, and I wanted to honor some of the writing I've done in the past and to swim in the soup of my Brooklyn origins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Just published in January, this is a funny, tender, and heartrending novel of characters in a Catholic parish in the 1950's in the vicinity of Ebbets Field. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field were the heart and
fabric of the city in the early 50’s; the parish formed a center of identity for
the church faithful; and the church clock tower tolled the rhythms of the day
uniting everyone in the intrigues and intricacies of human activity. Echoes of
Irish mythology reveal characters that live the social and religious movements
of the times in and among the Jewish community in the aftermath of World War
II. The characters are wise, foolhardy, humorous, and compassionate. A dual
love story is threaded through a tale of an old jealousy among friends that
gradually unfolds with Irish humor and a baseball team headed toward victory.</span><br />
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Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-90025936421296420282014-08-30T23:19:00.000-07:002014-08-30T23:19:06.402-07:00SEEDS OF VIRTUE, SEEDS OF CHANGE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Seeds of Virtue, Seeds of Change, A Collection of Zen Teachings,</b></i> edited by Jikyo Cheryl Wolfer, foreword by Eido Frances Carney. Temple Ground Press, 2014.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This excellent collection of Dharma essays by Soto Zen women priests is the first of its kind. Twenty-seven women priests present their wisdom teachings on Zen practice at a time in our history when we most need to listen to the heart of compassion.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Available at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Virtue-Change-Collection-Teachings/dp/0985565136/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409465764&sr=8-1&keywords=seeds+of+virtue+seeds+of+change">Amazon </a>of your local bookstore. Please consider writing a review on the Amazon page when you purchase and read the book.</span>Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-70875837109588766472014-05-26T09:31:00.000-07:002014-05-26T09:31:14.694-07:00And They All Went Off To The Beach
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting The Hora and the surrounding mountains</td></tr>
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Go with the flow wherever you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I went down to the bakery this morning for the wonderful fresh
bread that comes out of the Greek ovens, Olympias called to me as I was headed
back home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was on her own at the
school yard making strides on the last part of the mural—the Hora.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Won’t you come and paint with me?” she
said, so I went home and changed and returned to the schoolyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I am getting my first taste of Greek
summer heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t keep up the
painting for too long as the heat radiated off the concrete basketball court
and the concrete wall and the fluid loss was just too great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I had to finish for today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Off to the beach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Olympias remembered the film, “Never On
Sunday” which ends with Melina Mercouri saying, “And they all went off to the
beach.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that’s what we did.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A natural face in the rock</td></tr>
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The weather is now warm enough for swimming although if you
stay in the water for too long you do get chilled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five minutes on the sand and you are
recovered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an amazing sea; the
water is magical and like silk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
thinking of renting a kayak if I feel motivated enough to put down my book, get
off my beach chair, and sweat a little out on the bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These next and last days are quite
leisurely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I watch the Aegean Speedlines
ferry come in and out of the port and feel some reticence about leaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can stand on the upper deck as the boat
pulls out and look back at the bays I’ve visited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boat will stop at Milos and Sifnos before
continuing to Pireaus where I’ll taxi on to Athens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Profile of a man</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A natural foot and hand sculpture</td></tr>
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Yesterday I spent some time photographing the rocks that
form a barrier between the port of Livadi where I live and the Livadakia Bay
and beach where I frequent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m taken by
the natural sculptures of the stone and the carvings made by the sea and
wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stones are like mythic faces
of gods and characters from the Odyssey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also in antiquity, Serifos was known as the Island of Mute Frogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one can tell me anything about this and I
cannot find a record of mute frogs (there is such a species) outside of North
America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as I photographed and
examined the rocks, they seemed like multiple frog sculptures as the wind
causes the rocks to be rounded and sometimes form a froglike face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if this was the story from antiquity
and this is how it got its name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may
not be, but I like the idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rocks
inspired the thought of paintings and certainly sculptures and I’ll be glad to
be in a place where I can execute something if the mood touches me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-15880199448647923192014-05-24T14:08:00.001-07:002014-05-24T14:08:42.118-07:00Transitions
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cafe at Mega Livadi. Typical to<br />have such lovely tavernas on the shore.</td></tr>
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Just as images of Greece entered my mind before coming,
thoughts of Olympia USA are arriving without effort as my stay here comes toward a close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s natural to have this happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here in Serifos the tallest trees are royal
palms although the tallest tree I saw, a giant eucalyptus, stood behind the tribute
to Constantinos Speras.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tree looked
old enough to have been there when he was alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Olympia, it’s all trees. trees, trees.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My supermarket and a black cat on the road looking<br />like a he's ready for a shootout in Dodge.</td></tr>
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I have not been in Livadi entirely as a tourist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every day I have simply lived here in
somewhat the way the Greeks live here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Granted I’m not Greek so it’s presumptuous of me to say this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’ve done my laundry and hung it out to dry,
shopped at the local markets with the regulars, cooked food that made sense to
me even though it wasn’t truly Greek flavors, cleaned my house with the tools
that are used here, endured the wind the same as everyone, walked around, rode
the bus, carried away my trash, did everyday life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I am feeling a certain connection here
that is warm and I’ll take back a sense of relatedness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same time, I have not done much
talking, just listening to the world here, taking it all in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I did speak with people I generally
asked questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was typically not
asked questions in response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t
mind being in company again with known friends and taking up another kind of
everyday life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old door at the Hora.</td></tr>
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Yet five and a half days to go on Serifos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I return to Athens by boat on Friday
evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Saturday it will be at the
National Archeological Museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday
morning, June 1, I fly out from Athens to Toronto to Seattle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is always more one could do or could
have done but I’m not the sort to have to conquer every detail of a place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw a couple at the Hora who were looking
at the hiking map of the island with some sense of distress and they were
saying, “Oh, we didn’t go on this trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe we should do that one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
we didn’t go on the west trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
didn’t see it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed as if they had
a need to gobble up every inch of the island to say that they had actually seen
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Pretty much, having driven around the whole island, it is
the same although there are some different spectacular views from one place to
another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being content with what one has
seen and holding it as one’s own experience is quite fine for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t have to say that I’ve walked every
inch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I prefer to say that where I
walked was realized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On days when I
stayed downtown and helped with the mural, I was entirely content with that
adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On days when I battened the
shutters against the wind and stayed home, I felt equally content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some days I just stayed home, wrote, walked
downtown, sat on the patio and looked at the bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m getting old and simple and a little can
go a long way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think what I’ve
seen and felt was a lot and I feel enriched for having experienced the
antiquities and to have carried the mythic stories to this place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can only think that when I watch the
Perseid Meteor Shower in August, the constellations of Perseus and Andromeda
will offer new meaning and I’ll have the treasure of having stood on this ground
where people believe that the real people of Perseus and Andromeda actually
walked.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">There are eleven cats in this collection <br />that run around all day pestering for food. <br />During siesta they will not<br />move even if I begin work <br />in my kitchen. <br />They've obviously just been fed.</td></tr>
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And these cats, there are actually eleven of them, will have
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<!--EndFragment-->Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-83942872369003559742014-05-24T07:36:00.000-07:002014-05-24T07:50:45.940-07:00The White Tower and Constantinos Speras<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hora is that black and grey dot at the upper right.</td></tr>
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I thought I had gone as high as I could go on the island with my climb at the Hora, but I went out with Leonardo again who stopped by his home to pick up something on the way to Mega Livadi. This was the view from his place, looking down on the Hora and the edge of Livadi where I'm staying. Utter silence and stillness except the far cry of a hawk and a bit of wind. A breathtaking moment.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The White Tower under reconstruction.</td></tr>
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The diameter of the circle is about eight and half meters. The blocks were skillfully joined and set with no binding agent. It likely had three stories and was twelve meters tall. This is surmised by the 750 marble blocks that are sitting beside it in a kind of block marble graveyard. In the early part of the 20th century, when mining was again at its peak, a cemetery was built on the site using some of the marble as headstones, as well as a small church. Unlike the experience in Athens where guards are everywhere to keep people from touching the marble at the Acropolis, you can walk inside this White Tower and put your hands right onto the marble from these ancient times.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tribute to Constantinos Speras at Mega Levadi</td></tr>
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On we went for lunch at Mega Livadi and a brief history lesson about the mining symbols we are painting on the mural downtown. I learned about the Mine Strike of 1916 from the people who run the taverna in the square. When the mine workers on Serifos were desperate for help, they called on Constantinos Speras, a man who had been born in Serifos in 1893 and was working to assist the labor movement in Athens and on another island. Speras returned and organized The Union of Working Men and Miners of Serifos, and as its president, he defended the rights of the workers, ultimately calling a strike in 1916. The workers had almost no rights, worked during all light hours, seven days a week, and as was reported by the man who lives at the mines and told this history, the men were not even permitted to take a moment to pee. When the workers put down their tools, the owners of the mines called in the police. This escalated into a face off between the two groups and the miners were given five minutes to make their decision to go back to work. When they refused, violence broke out. Three miners were killed and one policeman. In this melee, the wives of the miners and the women of the town came to the assistance of the miners by throwing stones. A pregnant woman who participated in the fight, took responsibility for the death of the policeman and she went to prison where her daughter was born. This daughter had a son who now lives on the same mountain today. Speras was also arrested and put in the jail on the site. He was not there very long as the miners tore down the door of the jail and released him. Ultimately, Speras and the workers won and their demand for an eight hour work day was agreed to. This tribute to Constantinos Speras stands in the little square at the village on the site where the tragedy took place. The matter of the mines and its history is right now being painted on the mural wall in downtown Livadi, as you've already seen. The wall is coming along; it's coming toward its magnificent finish.<br />
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as it was then.</td></tr>
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History books record Speras as an anarcho-syndicalist and a pioneer in the working class trade unions in Greece. A man of great courage and determination, he was arrested, imprisoned, and exiled an impressive 109 times in his lifetime. He was ultimately assassinated in Athens in 1943.<br />
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An example of a contemporary anarcho-syndicalist is Noam Chomsky. There is plenty of information to find online if you are interested in this political theory.Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-71419790757066608532014-05-22T13:11:00.001-07:002014-05-22T13:16:26.671-07:00The Mood to Climb<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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there’s a staircase, it begs to be climbed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Don’t ask what prompted me to dash down to the bus for the afternoon run
to the Hora, the town at the top of the mountain overlooking Livadi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wind was howling with gusts at 35-40
mph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps I wanted to know what it
was like up there on a day when the wind was at its full power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then, it’s a thing about moods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you can’t or won’t respond to the moods,
then you don’t get to play with the Greek gods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Something moved me and off I went.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There were three things I wanted to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was to climb to the very top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second was to go to the Archeological
Center and the third was to eat souvlaki at The Blue Dream, recommended by a
few locals as the best souvlaki in Serifos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Archeological Center was closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s all, just closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can
telephone tomorrow to find out when it might be open, but it is pre-season so
perhaps they are taking a rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I
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the island, but several are seen on top<br />
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It’s hard to describe the Hora.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has narrow staircases that wind up the
mountain with homes that form narrow corridors that feed through passageways to
the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can touch the walls on
either side as you pass the doorways into private areas of the dwellers on this
mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was alone the whole time and
passed no one and saw no one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed
a ghost town of sorts and only one time I heard some kitchen sounds from an open
window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I got higher and higher the
silence became deeper and the view more awesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oddly, although there were times when I was
nearly pushed over by the wind, when I got to the top, I didn’t feel it so
much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps because it’s protected by
the church at the very top and I was standing behind the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rock piles and ruins are everywhere. In an enlargement<br />
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I felt an urge to spend time up there, but I’d have been
better to have gotten an earlier bus, planned to stay on top and sit up there
and write and then catch the late afternoon bus back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walking down is the hard part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s where my knees could give out so
although I’d be glad to climb up, I’d prefer to ride the bus down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Canadians warned me against the climb
down all the way to the port although that’s what most people do thinking that
it’s easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I made my way to the Blue
Dream which took some doing against the wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had certainly earned my meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Argghhh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They only serve souvlaki on Friday and
Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Argggh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I had a lemonade and rode the bus home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So what happened that was tucked inside the call to follow
the mood? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was the payoff of all
this? What happened is that I got an idea!!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I got it on the bus while I was riding up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something hit me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d been waiting for an idea for weeks now,
some inspiration to follow in writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’d been saying, “Hermes, you messenger of inspiration and ideas, where
are you?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course I cannot say what
this idea is because it must sink in and take root, and who knows if it will
play out, but by the time I got back home I had about six more ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve jotted them all down so they’ve not been
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Ah, life is good, the moods are afoot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wall is getting painted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The winds are beginning to quiet down and
they’ll be very soft over the weekend and good for swimming as the weather begins to warm up just about
when I’ll be packing for the trip back home.</div>
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If I were to try to express what is, to me, the real Greece, it would be in the eyes of older women. Two older women today brought me to near tears because of the depth of the look in their eyes. I cannot dare photograph them because it would be an intrusion into their souls and it would be a betrayal of what was exchanged between us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first is a woman who keeps a small market down the road from my house. She is slow and sits quietly in the dark corner near the cash register just behind the door as you enter the store. The markets are crammed with goods and you have to go sideways down the aisles to clear the clutter. I’m told that her son died a few weeks ago at age 45 of multiple sclerosis. Some people may live much longer, but on Serifos there are generally no doctors, no hospitals, no treatment centers. If you get sick, there is every possibility that you could die. People could die here of an appendicitis attack. Of course, you could die in a hospital too. Life makes no guarantees. Many people have sicknesses and are healed by faith. There are numerous stories I’m told of such happenings. But this man died at a young age.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The woman lives upstairs from the shop. She is as wrinkled and old as currants. Her white scarf covers her white hair and she wears all black sweater and long skirt. When I went in a few days ago she was not there and I asked the man at the counter if she was all right. He said, yes, of course, she is upstairs. The reason I asked that day is that I heard when her son died, she completely wrecked her apartment, throwing all of her dishes at the wall, destroying lamps and everything she had in her terrible grief. But this morning she was there. This was my second time to look her in the eye. Greek women look into your soul. We had a sweet exchange. She smiled and thanked me for my purchases. She gave me the change and forgave the 40 euros because she didn’t have the coins to pay me back. So I looked into my purse and found 50 euros. She laughed and then slapped another 10 euros change on the counter. We both laughed. I'm just being as honest in my debts as Socrates, after all. With that, she touched my arm to say thank you and gazed in that deep way that tears you apart. And then I touched her hand too. So simple, so deep, and unforgettable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The second woman is the woman who swims every day out, out, out into the sea. Of course, the sea here is not dangerous. There is no tide or undertow to sweep you away. But still, she swims alone and I suppose, she might as well die out in the sea where she is enjoying herself as well as die on the land. What’s the difference except that we’ll mythologize the event and make something of it because she went out and never came back. But it’s that she does it even today when it was cold and raining. She just walks directly into the water without hesitation. Still in the greyness she went out. We were in the school yard when she returned from the beach and I immediately recognized her because it was yesterday that we encountered one another on the beach when I was playing with the stones and making a tribute to Hermes. When she approached today, the others immediately called to her and she came over. I went to her to shake hands and said my name as she also recognized me. It was the look of the sea in her eyes that swept me away out as far as she herself had gone. Such contained and exceptional self-knowledge is how she seems to me. She knows herself and she carries her being in her life on this island. She does not have to go anywhere else. She has no itching search for anything else and yet her life appears deep and complete. No doubt she has her suffering. Sometimes the one who has suffered the most has the sweetest and most beautiful countenance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-37706341830598473602014-05-19T07:36:00.000-07:002014-05-26T08:47:24.931-07:00Rain By Any Other Name. . .<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSCN35MjLZ06ntoPaBUgWSmnFNHrvgPYWg7C0zo3YUDiNTUzSbkdZhzc5JWFzKZVUuhTFYnhk5LJf7Ld9sA1b19-VDgPmNu7fWzZw8BB5Q-fQmMLIbaVLZhdyCb4z_i9-zkQP0vDN8Xq5/s1600/IMG_1334.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSCN35MjLZ06ntoPaBUgWSmnFNHrvgPYWg7C0zo3YUDiNTUzSbkdZhzc5JWFzKZVUuhTFYnhk5LJf7Ld9sA1b19-VDgPmNu7fWzZw8BB5Q-fQmMLIbaVLZhdyCb4z_i9-zkQP0vDN8Xq5/s1600/IMG_1334.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a>By now I'm on a first-name basis with the friends who are painting the wall at the high school. Today, as it was quite cloudy, I put on my painting clothes and went down to help. It's a community project, so anyone is invited to participate. I was assigned a spot and I studiously painted my section while I chatted with two others who were also engaged in their own areas. So many people speak English here. Others shouted encouragement out their car windows as they sped by. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0VV9lazXyNCJj9R6tcNI61ZWlsAkXbRdyy_3PLQ2BWrxOaJq7sfYCDKL5mzDJexDo0PLIRy7au0snpbGMF3gziqaDq6KOeU_Vvn6I96jI_b1HfEqjjqGlAgholovTixdfrBTn-PmKqvNG/s1600/IMG_1343.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0VV9lazXyNCJj9R6tcNI61ZWlsAkXbRdyy_3PLQ2BWrxOaJq7sfYCDKL5mzDJexDo0PLIRy7au0snpbGMF3gziqaDq6KOeU_Vvn6I96jI_b1HfEqjjqGlAgholovTixdfrBTn-PmKqvNG/s1600/IMG_1343.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a>The design of the mural is by Olympias Kelaidi, (find her on Youtube well worth viewing, see links below) the art teacher for the grade and high school, who had painted Icons in the Greek Orthodox style in order to earn a living in art until she developed a hump in her back from being bent over a table for twenty years. She gave it up and became an art teacher first in Lesbos and then in Serifos. She was born in Athens and then in her early years, she went to Brussels to study Mexican style mural painting, her first love and of which she has extraordinary accomplishment. In addition, she went to Korea around 1992-3 (some of the same years that I was in Japan) where she studied traditional Korean brush painting. Korea is an Asian leader in progressive modern art techniques in brush painting completely modernizing and experimenting with the forms. She also paints using egg tempera which she makes herself. Six years ago she came to Serifos, loves it here, and has remained ever since. She feels she is making an important contribution to children's lives teaching them the values of aesthetics and artistic expression. I haven't gotten her permission to use her photo here yet but I will soon along with the finished mural.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqI1kYkcL1o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqI1kYkcL1o</a> Land art with Olympias Kelaidi<br />
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Another Youtube video I recommend is not Olympias' but is a very sweet video, about 10 minutes and tells a story of the children who live in Hora, the top of the mountain. The scenery is also lovely. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5YK93ZiMeg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5YK93ZiMeg</a></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-81511254785328075322014-05-17T11:23:00.002-07:002014-05-17T11:23:50.169-07:00Tribute to Hermes<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Small stone Tribute to Hermes</td></tr>
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We create because we can and we must. Idle on the beach today I saw the excellent stones that were calling to be piled into these small sculptural formations. We see these on beaches and at trailheads. We pile one stone upon another as a tribute to Hermes who will see us on a safe journey. Hermes delivers messages from the gods, is the the go-between worlds of the mortal and divine, and guides people when they die to the underworld. He is the protector of travelers and boundaries, orators, poets, literature, sports, athletics, invention, and the finder of things lost or stolen. Hermes is most often seen carrying the cadeusus, the staff of crossed snakes with wings above and which is different from the symbol of the physician which is the Rod of Asclapius and has only one snake. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On a quiet stone wall at the beach.</td></tr>
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The Buddhist Bodhisattva Jizo, or Ksitigarbha, who also carries a staff, acts in a similar regard overseeing the underworld and guiding the souls to give comfort in the hell realms and to protect people on journeys. Small piles of stones may be seen at the crossroads where there are also Jizo statues in the hope that it may shorten the time of suffering in the underworld. I find the similarities of these two striking and since they evolve from such ancient roots, I cannot help but feel the Greek influence on Buddhism once again.<br />
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Jizo has a long mythological beginning and is said to have developed in China, more so than in India, and then to have been modified again with the development of devotion to Jizo in Japan. Early mythic connections come from the Hindu goddess Prithvi, associated with the earth and fertility, who is the mother of all creatures and the consort of the sky. Much later in China, Jizo was connected with Kokuzo Bosatsu who represented space so that the two paired together represented the blessings of earth and space. In the Jizo Bosatsu Sutra, a 7th Century Chinese translation from Sanskrit, Prithvi vows to use all her miraculous powers to protect Jizo devotees. Here is an interesting marriage of Hinduism referred to in a Buddhist sutra that I suggest has Greek influence.<br />
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Greek influence has already occurred in India long before the development of Jizo and the merging of mythic forces is very possible and likely. Hermes as an essential figure in the pantheon is completely present in the culture of Alexander and his retinue. To transfer this responsibility that Hermes carried in his messaging and care of the underword seems totally natural in its development and transfer into China and Japan once the pagan world diminished. The archetypal responsibility would not just be abandoned, but would be redrawn and expressed in a means that spoke in the adoptive culture. This entails a great deal of study and elucidation and is too big a subject for this column and I'm not doing it justice, but it touches me as another example of syncretic mythical development from Greek and Indian symbols and practices with the Buddhist Asian and Mediterranean pantheons. <br />
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<br />Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-18436636904647542442014-05-16T13:20:00.000-07:002014-05-16T13:20:12.840-07:00In the Hood<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The system of trash removal here is that there are large
bins at various locations around town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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your trash to the bin and deposit it there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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taxes must be high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I noticed on my
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SERIFOS</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students painting the wall.</td></tr>
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The other day I got tired of walking over trash that was
tossed on the ground around the trash bin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was still lying there after the bin had been emptied and it was right
next to the high school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put on a pair
of rubber gloves and on one of my outings, I put on the gloves and picked up
the garbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It didn’t matter whether
anyone saw me or not; I had no idea whether or not they did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I just couldn’t walk over this garbage
any longer and not do something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several
days have gone by now and I notice that the street has been swept, and the
schoolyard which had been full of trash is now cleaned up also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, the kids are painting a mural on the
play yard wall that depicts the history of the mines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is so great to see and I’m thrilled that
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students painting the wall.</td></tr>
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I’m sure this wall painting has been in the works and my cleaning up is pure serendipity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, it’s nice
to be part of the cleanup and taking pride in the sense of place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yesterday when I was walking home, a young
girl about 6 years old ran after me and gave me a painting she had done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How sweet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have enough Greek now to tell her my name, where I’m from and to ask
for her name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is Sophia and was so
proud of her painting and I was so honored to be given it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My faithful friends.</td></tr>
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It’s delightful
to be part of the neighborhood, all nine cats too who live with a woman who
cares for them on the first level of the attached houses where I’m living. The minute I begin anything in the kitchen, they can hear me open a cabinet, take out a pot, open a bag of peanuts, or just about anything kitchen three levels up and they are at the window. Nice to be part of the neighborhood and nice to be so well received.</div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-56584758415744449852014-05-15T12:18:00.000-07:002014-05-15T12:18:13.445-07:00The Road to Ramos
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the road to Ramos with <br />a great view of Sifnos</td></tr>
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Today I walked to Ramos, the next town over from Livadakia
and two mountain passes away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tied my
hat down with a scarf to keep from having to rescue the hat from the wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does keep blowing, but tonight there
is a sudden stillness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In any event,
Ramos is a small settlement of about twenty homes off the main road and along a
dirt trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As there are 120 churches on
Serifos, Ramos naturally gets its own church too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming around the bend in the village, an
older man who was working his garden, said hello and immediately said he was
Greek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We chatted and said he was living
in Australia for the past 40 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
we spoke a bit and he asked me in for tea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I said I’d stop in on my way back.<o:p></o:p></div>
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everywhere on this island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looks like
Ireland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The large stone pilings that
appear here and there are evidence of cyclopean stones that I’ve mentioned
earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A mythic white horse suddenly
appeared in a field and watched me till I went out of sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plenty of homes, if they have a bit of land,
have small vegetable gardens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The church
is in the center of the village with its main altar directed straight out to
sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New homes are being built in empty
lots and the size of some of them took my breath away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Greek terms, they are starter castles, as
Greek homes tend to be small and tucked into the mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An island such as Serifos does not seem to
have endless resources although many, many homes have solar panels on their
roofs which must help support the energy supply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there’s a bit footprint from these
buildings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The little church in Ramos</td></tr>
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I climbed as high as the paths would allow and then circled
back to have tea with Constantine, a divorced man and a former seaman probably
70 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was back at his Greek
home to prepare it for the Baptism of his young grandson who would be arriving
in September with about fifteen of the relatives also living in Darwin,
Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ceremony would take place
at this little church just down the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The whole contingency all the way from Darwin would attend this little
church in Ramos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is surely called
Tradition!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We sat at his kitchen table and chatted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a man who has been all over the world
and is completely comfortable with himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He showed me pictures of the children and his family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His opinion is that the Greek infrastructure
is deteriorating due to the system of government and that young people have
lost their ability to work hard on the land from too much television and
internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then, who doesn’t feel
that way; the Greeks are not alone in this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I finished my tea and thanked him and said if I went up the road again
that way I’d stop in to see him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
a joy to have gone into this very humble home, to have felt so comfortable and
safe inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would have been wrong to
photograph any of it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With this company, who<br />could say one is alone!</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUFOY2d29qtT42q_GmTLoCfaZEEUr2268_P-DigowG1BlLqP7vBrn1GnfuwgqHn8G40IFhDb_lEfX4kCJxqaKo_cwQt7lurgBInlwRjClXStchaTJaQTwneDgtugep9d1Ws76JdV9muUpu/s1600/IMG_1236.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUFOY2d29qtT42q_GmTLoCfaZEEUr2268_P-DigowG1BlLqP7vBrn1GnfuwgqHn8G40IFhDb_lEfX4kCJxqaKo_cwQt7lurgBInlwRjClXStchaTJaQTwneDgtugep9d1Ws76JdV9muUpu/s1600/IMG_1236.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a>I came back and spent a few hours on the beach in late
afternoon feeling myself in the luxury of drowsiness on the blanket with the
lapping of the water against the sandy shore. In the evening as always when I
cook, the locals join me at the window in hopes of a mere morsel tossed their
way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have nearly almost stopped thinking.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some may think that one mosquito is as good as another, but
I’m one who thinks otherwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my
experience, mosquitos have quite different behaviors depending upon which
country they live in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further they have
a different whine in their approach, and they attack in different
ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this writing I offer just
three examples.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Greek Mosquito. <br />You can tell by the accent</td></tr>
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American mosquitos are impatient and persistent, darting
back at you when you flick them away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They might come around your ear to give some indication of their
presence, but they can just as easily bite around your ankles or on the backs
of your arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you go hunting for them
in your room in the middle of the night, they will hide on a dark surface but
often give themselves away by changing their location and usually to a top
place near the ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this, you can
spot their flight because they can’t stay still.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Japanese mosquitos are very quick and will fly low to the
floor before they approach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their whine
is more high pitched than American mosquitos and they are smaller and darker in
color.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you try to catch them
midair, they will quickly dart away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, they’ll bite you on your bare scalp, but once you go after them,
they will dash quickly to a wall and remain close to the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are patient and will hide skillfully
when there is a hunter in pursuit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
know you are thinking about them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Greek mosquitos are quite skillful and extremely
patient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will give a warning by the
ear, but they are quick paced and difficult to catch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might think you’ve gotten one with a hit
against the wall, but that same mosquito will evade your swipe and wait on a
dark surface for an hour before returning for a gulp of blood. There are no
screens on any Greek windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the
temperature goes over 70 and the wind stops, it’s fair game for mosquitos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is plenty of still water around the
island for them to breed in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mosquitos
do not fly in windy conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>may learn to love the wind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alexander conquering the Persians</td></tr>
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Mosquito spraying began in Greece in April due to West Nile
virus threat because of a warm winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Who is it who suggested that Alexander the Great, did not die of
consumption or poisoning, but rather from the humble bite of a mosquito,
perhaps a West Nile virus laden mosquito or malaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whole civilizations conquered and yet
Alexander thwarted by a lowly mosquito lying in wait so patiently for the warrior. I'm afraid that where mosquitos are concerned, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not share the saintly mercy of Ryokan who, legend says, always put one leg outside his mosquito net to offer some food to these creatures. Two mosquitos sucked my blood twice last night but I was equally patient and sadly brought about their demise in the long quiet hours between
2 and 4 a.m.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-46816114528647258782014-05-13T12:54:00.001-07:002014-05-13T12:54:34.167-07:00The Cyclopes<br />
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So, there are what are called “cyclopean walls” that are
evident on the north shore of the island, so I’m told.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did see such walls when we went to Mycenae
where the large stones that formed the fortress were believed to have been
placed by the Cyclopes people because no single human could possibly lift them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stones looked to me to be about six or
eight man stones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of their
presence here on Serifos, it is believed that the Cyclopes were present on this
island.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cyclop Polyphemus</td></tr>
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The Cyclopes were the mythical one-eyed giants who were the
builders and craftsmen and were said to have been the blacksmiths who provided
Zeus with his thunderbolts, fashioned the helmet of invisibility for Hades and
gave Poseidon his trident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Cyclopes
have been written into various poetic texts such as Homer, Euripides, Virgil,
Theocritus and Hesiod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some scholars
suggest that because the Cyclopes were blacksmiths, typically very strong men, they
wore an eye patch over one eye to prevent sparks from injuring them in both
their eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This gave rise to the myth
of the one-eyed being. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
suggestion is that the myth rose out of the use of an herbal medicine that
contains a poisonous substance that can cause birth defects such as a fetus
being born with only one eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such an
event may have been the cause of the development of the myth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How the massive walls of the structures were built is still
unknown and it was assumed that only herculean or cyclopean creatures could
have lifted such stones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t know
how the ancient monuments were set in place, how the pyramids were built, how
Stonehenge was managed, but the Greek myth developed around the cyclopean
walls.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Further to this, I’ve been in touch with a former colleague
Jim, a geology teacher, who very coincidentally got in touch with me via email
about a week ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I answered a
question about Buddhism, I asked him questions about geology, a subject I
sorely wish I had studied for my science requirement because of its
practicality instead of paleontology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, I learn that Jim suggests that Serifos looks like a seamount, an
undersea mountain, but may very well be a caldera that formed suddenly from an
underground volcanic event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He mentions
that an explosive geological event created the mountain of Santorini around the
year 1600 BC. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have yet to discover
whether such an event also occurred on Serifos. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA_IVFdpmgLm16k-bCDy_FA5YaXERmWeCzX82XtzE5MtcQOxkquRBRhtOeUVyEWJl298JgrAHvuXK2-UR9InfMtcxRGwZrEDL8fkQ71Xd_DT-3lF9qsa9SC9FoeZBww1Xv7dnoyfV8Awt9/s1600/IMG_0798.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA_IVFdpmgLm16k-bCDy_FA5YaXERmWeCzX82XtzE5MtcQOxkquRBRhtOeUVyEWJl298JgrAHvuXK2-UR9InfMtcxRGwZrEDL8fkQ71Xd_DT-3lF9qsa9SC9FoeZBww1Xv7dnoyfV8Awt9/s1600/IMG_0798.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a>Some myths say the Cyclopes were killed by Apollo and sent
to Hades, the land of the dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zeus
could not bear this and he negotiated for their release from Hades even though
they were dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some myths, the
ghosts of the Cyclopes are living in Mt. Aetna where they are believed to be
causing all the noise in the volcanoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So far as Serifos is concerned, don’t forget that it was the Cyclopes
who created the tools and the helmet of Hades to allow Perseus to be invisible
in his quest to overcome Medusa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
Serifos is indeed a caldera, then the Cyclopes may be trapped beneath Serifos
in Hades as they are in some myths because in a caldera, the mouth of the
volcano is sealed by the collapse of the land above and around it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, calderas are known to have rich ore
deposits which Serifos has, which the Cyclopes needed for their inventions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did I already mention that I wondered if the
ore was of a magnetic kind because I’ve been feeling so good and I’ve wondered
about the healing nature of magnetism on the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim also thinks that there is a strong
possibility of high magnetic ore or magnetite, in areas that have major
geologic shifts such as we find in Greece which is on a plate between the Eurasian,
the African and the Aegean plates where we find high earthquake activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who ever thought that myth and science would
be so closely related.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Got all of that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See
how it all connects?</div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
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I cannot help but think of the underbelly of this
place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What really goes on?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As sure as the myths are full of complex
enterprise, conniving, interference in human interaction, so it is here
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stuff happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps it is even more so in a small village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can only feel it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an outsider, I can’t talk about it even if
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obvious when I shop at one store or another and then pass by one that I
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it seems so carefree and easygoing—a lighthearted, welcoming Greek spirit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A crumbling area on the road to the Chora.</td></tr>
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It is hospitable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People are very nice, always say hello on the street and are courteous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wouldn’t hesitate to walk
anywhere alone and am confident in being safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yesterday, walking up the mountain I went through areas of tall
cornstalk like grasses and went for long stretches sometimes hidden from sight
and beyond where I could call for help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While on the road numerous motorcycles passed me by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It didn’t occur to me that there would be
trouble and this is not some naïve traveler’s notion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were areas in Athens or in Piraeus that
I wouldn’t go, but here on the island I generally feel protected.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But what nefarious enterprises are afoot?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, if not nefarious, then what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to know the real story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are these young men doing riding from
one place to another stopping at various places as they go?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> They are not food shopping.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fence blocking off road to an old mine, I think.</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">What is that young man doing who rides along
the dirt road in front of my place?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
stops and waits at the main corner, takes a signal from a man in a car and then
rides back?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have cell phones today so
it isn’t as though we need to deliver messages by hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who gets hired to do what construction
job?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What resistances are there in the
organization of the city and how is the food distributed when it comes off the
boats?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do the farms operate?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about local wine making?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taxes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Water?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trash removal?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sewage?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Who pays what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What happens if
you don’t or can’t pay?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is there a jail
here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t seen a policeman or a
local government building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ships come
and go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Properties are bought and sold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Land is being parceled out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s an underbelly, and now that I’m in
the daily comings and goings like everyone else, I can’t help but wonder how things really work.</span><br />
<o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-38731841373932102392014-05-12T08:20:00.001-07:002014-05-12T08:20:39.252-07:00Climb to the Chora<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Chora is actually<br />
Serifos, the ancient capital.</td></tr>
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My intention when I started out today was to gain a bit of
altitude on the road to the Chora and sit on a wall somewhere and write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, little by little by little, I kept
going and when I was at least halfway, I thought well might as well go for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The altitude gain from sea level is 585
meters or 1919 feet with the distance of 5 kilometers or 3 miles plus a few
hundred yards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Didn’t seem like
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Walkway to Chora</td></tr>
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The path is a mixture of roadway and stair climbing that
takes you past a few churches, past the one room schoolhouse, through the
narrow streets of this ancient place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are surely people who live up there and have never come down to
the port.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wind predominates and has the
sense of closing one off from the rest of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It reminded me of the wind in the movie “Black Narcissus” with the
howling of it and the buildings clinging to the edge of the cliffs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of them appear to be quite unstable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Schoolhouse</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Walkway to Chora</td></tr>
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At least three times I thought I would die, but turning back
would have been equally problematic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Going downhill is far more difficult on the knees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stopped to rest numerous times, but the
stair climb was relentless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought
I’d really have to get to the top to ride the 4:00 p.m. bus back down to
Livadi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bus ride takes 15
minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stopped in a taverna and had
a lemonade, chatting with the 31 year old handsome Greek who has lived on the
top for 2.5 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He spoke enough
English, as most people do, to have a simple conversation and share the basic
‘where are you from’ kind of thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The minute he looked at me huffing and puffing as I reached the near
top, he immediately handed me a glass of water, and this helped me revive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never did get to the very top which was
another 100 steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would have been
completely foolish and would have tempted fate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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very top and to see the archeological exhibit. I was the only one walking up although I passed several people who were headed down. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bit precarious with some serious erosion beneath <br />
these houses. Trouble is when you get to the top,<br />
you don't know whether you are sitting in a<br />
taverna that is one of these buildings. Scary!!</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Sjq6Ck0I8TGvOya_7IXbJcHmU_OjD-qOpxw5AmXl0kjiifP7K9qF2FprBwkV0EVA4mF92I1xO7R24rSm1smv6_3N7sV_g8K1o3v3xMaJ7tVB2Ty-VpF9gxpF4Tuuv2OzI3I9zCA_DgHI/s1600/IMG_1046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Sjq6Ck0I8TGvOya_7IXbJcHmU_OjD-qOpxw5AmXl0kjiifP7K9qF2FprBwkV0EVA4mF92I1xO7R24rSm1smv6_3N7sV_g8K1o3v3xMaJ7tVB2Ty-VpF9gxpF4Tuuv2OzI3I9zCA_DgHI/s1600/IMG_1046.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a>A sweet old man was also waiting at the bus stop and another
man with a donkey came back and forth several times hauling gravel up the
hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, his donkey hauled the
gravel, three buckets on each side of his pack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I couldn’t photograph it; sometimes it’s just too rude to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The old man motioned for me to sit beside him
on the bus and then we made a stop at the school to take the grade school kids
back down to the port.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-53741580934450135292014-05-09T04:30:00.000-07:002014-05-09T04:30:46.524-07:00Downtown Olympia, Greece<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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So, I did run downtown Olympia for a quick look. It's a sweet place. It was not quite lunch time although some tavernas were beginning to get customers. I do wish we'd had the chance to roam through the town, but I had to be back for the bus. As things went, we climbed back onto the bus and stopped only about five minutes drive away to a prearranged luncheon spot that the buses tour prepares. We paid extra for our own lunches although breakfast and dinner were taken care of. Bringing a hoard of people to a place and having 30 people arrive all at once isn't easy for a restaurant. So, the tour arranges the stops ahead. They also took us to particular souvenir shops. One could easily pull back and not buy anything, but people did buy souvenirs in various places.<br />
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At the restaurant just beyond Olympia, another large group was being entertained by dancers. We naturally got to see them also and some of us began to do the Zorba the Greek dance shoulder to shoulder on the patio, which I took the time to learn before coming. How glad I felt to be able to do a little dancing with some learned skill. It was a marvelous moment and I have no photo of it because I was busy dancing. <br />
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Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-88559098704438481872014-05-09T03:51:00.000-07:002014-05-09T03:51:42.137-07:00The Museum of Olympia
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I had to choose between going to the museum shop to buy a
book on the excavation and art or running to see the downtown city of Olympia
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</span>Since I’ll be going to the National Archaeological Museum on my last day
here, I’ll do my best to find a book on Olympia which I hope they will have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A book on the art of Olympia is worthy of
owning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We ought to know about our
sister city and the sanctuary, after all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We seem to pay attention to our sister city in Japan, but our Greek
connection is silent, so far as I know.<o:p></o:p></div>
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the midst of a discussion around the Temple of Zeus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pediments from this temple were on
display in the museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one side was
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nurses in Boeotia and he seems to have thrown his cloak over a tree trunk while
he pauses for a moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The statue,
although not complete, was found in the Temple of Hera in a thick clay deposit which helped to
preserve it. I had moved away from the group for a brief moment and when I entered the room I was alone with this statue for a good three minutes. A very rare happening. As Hermes is one of my favorites, it was thrilling to have been given this gift of communion with the god. One must seize the moments when they come.</div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-39398083198574476342014-05-08T02:46:00.001-07:002014-05-08T02:46:55.516-07:00Ancient Olympia<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I’m going backwards in travel time, but that clock has lost
its meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not expect the
sanctuary of Olympia to have such a sacred atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, the central god is Zeus, whereas in
Delphi, the god is Apollo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Numerous
groups of sightseers crowded into this sanctuary, particularly Greek high school students studying their ancient culture, yet there was a general
silence that came upon us as we approached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The air was cool with high clouds shading us and then suddenly hot in
the sun with all the surrounding hills still carrying the green of winter rains.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Temple of Hera with sacrificial <br />altar in the foreground</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Philippeon begun by Philip II <br />and completed by Alexander the Great</td></tr>
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The sanctuary of Olympia flourished from the 10<sup>th</sup>
C. BCE to 426 CE, the year in which the emperor Theodosius II closed all the
ancient sanctuaries and banned all of the ancient cults.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Olympia had been a major religious, cultural
and sporting center, a place that linked Greece with colonies on the
Mediterranean and the Black Sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
the pagan religions were suppressed, the Olympic games, which had continued for
twelve centuries and the site fell into disuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being adjacent to a river, flooding caused
some decay as did earthquakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A new
theory is that tsunamis were also responsible for some destruction of the
buildings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The modern games were not reinstituted until 1894 by Baron
Pierre de Coubertin and are now completely international.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During ancient times, only pure born Greek
men could participate and women were not even permitted to watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women are still fighting the good fight as in
the former ban on women in the high ski jump with the reason given until a few
years ago that it might cause harm to their reproductive organs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women were also excluded from performing in
the ancient theatre as they were in many other cultures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But all of that is another discussion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The playing field where I raced with two young girls <br />from Australia traveling in our group. The stone on the slope<br />to the left was the Statue of Demeter and the place on the<br />right slope was the judges stand.</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgffhiqeKDZoRQRDhFySeCHahC9mwX9eDdSpGwvryRjor5rDiPBFMnyZWdkONVeKlsPTKlkE724uO8d7pAZMKup9Fp8csgR7caI0PD3_Zap6YMvk_9ZG_8stC5LBxz7BVgcY1MIwq7-SxgL/s1600/IMG_0857.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgffhiqeKDZoRQRDhFySeCHahC9mwX9eDdSpGwvryRjor5rDiPBFMnyZWdkONVeKlsPTKlkE724uO8d7pAZMKup9Fp8csgR7caI0PD3_Zap6YMvk_9ZG_8stC5LBxz7BVgcY1MIwq7-SxgL/s1600/IMG_0857.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a>It’s hard to understand the suppression and destruction of cultures
such as happened here in Greece, in fantastic works of art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or in the destruction of the great Buddhist
statues by the Taliban for instance in our own time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The suppression of change and suppression of
past expression continues everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What a world!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a world!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It happens in neighborhoods, in schools in
our own cities and at our own dinner tables in subtle ways that we don’t
necessarily notice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do we appreciate
and continue traditions that we honor without erasing what is also around us? Globalization,
with all its whole-world view, is forcing us into a tight spot and forcing
difficult cultural questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much
does the culture of this island Serifos give up because of tourism, its main
economic resource?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>America as the great
experiment of freedom erased plenty of Native cultures and cultures of newly
arrived immigrants. Yet how interesting that hoards of people today are
flocking to so-called pagan sites and studying them as if hungry to assist and
revive the spirit of greatness in art and expression from these ancient times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have so much to learn.<br />
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<!--EndFragment-->Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-32614726049832780452014-05-07T12:38:00.001-07:002014-05-07T12:39:10.627-07:00Across the Island<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Psiliamos Beach</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The brilliant Aegean</td></tr>
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It was a relief to open the shutters tonight when the wind
finally stopped howling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In spite of 50
mph gusts, Leonardo picked me up for lunch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and we drove over to Platis Gialis Beach on the north shore of the island where oddly the wind was not as severe. “You’ll
love the wind,” he said when we started out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along the way
we passed exquisite uninhabited beaches accessible only on foot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“This is Paradise,” he kept
saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed there is that
feeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slowly you stop the worries of
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Best table at the Taverna</td></tr>
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The woman who owns the Taverna with her husband had done the
cooking which produced the finest aroma of Greek food that I’ve yet to
inhale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was born in this place and
has lived there all her life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her eyes
were clear with an authentic and loving gaze and oh my, the food was delicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We drank the local wine that the Taverna had
produced, a strong wine a bit like retsina but not restsina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you drank, it got better and better the
way wine is supposed to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was never
heady, just warm and heartening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view of some abandoned terracing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friendly goats in the hills</td></tr>
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Sadly, Scotch broom which is highly invasive is taking over
certain areas of the island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only low
growing trees appear in patchy groups which in America we’d call coast live
oak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The island, I’m told, lost its
trees to abundant agriculture, goats and sheep, and the persistence of
wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one time, the island produced a
great deal of wine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1970 there were
10,000 people living here with all the supporting services that were needed for
this population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now there are only about
1200.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the mines closed there was no
longer enough work and slowly the population decreased and agriculture
diminished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remnants of the terracing
remains and is almost everywhere in the hills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But some young people are coming back and are beginning to rebuild the
wine industry with a potential to support a larger population.<o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-80326561326891251222014-05-07T00:35:00.001-07:002014-05-07T00:35:59.593-07:00The Homeric Winds<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking to the Sea</td></tr>
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As Odysseus and his men are preparing to leave Aeolia to
sail back to Ithaka, Aeolus, king of the winds, gives Odysseus a leather sack
containing all of the winds except the west wind which will take them safely
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aeolus tells Odysseus not to open
it or he will release storm and chaos onto the waters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Odysseus does not tell his men that this is
what is in the sack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a week or so
of sailing calmly and nearly in sight of the homeland, when Odysseus is sleeping, the men begin to suspect
that Odysseus is hiding a treasure keeping the booty all for himself, and so they open the
satchel to look for gold and instead they release the winds turning the sea into terrible storm and chaos, driving
the ship back to Aeolia.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winds from the North</td></tr>
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The release of the wind yesterday morning was like that—a
sudden declarative burst of turmoil from the north as if the merciful satchel had
been opened, keeping the ships from advancing and forcing them into the
harbor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I can see that these winds on
Serifos come up for days on end and trees could never survive on the open
hills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The island is like a gigantic hard
surfaced sea turtle and we are riding on its back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today we have 50 mph gusts, howling and
buffeting the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing that I
haven’t been through in Olympia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here it
is actually safer because there are no trees to be blown down.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Last night, I closed the heavy shutters against the wind and
felt myself entering a cave of silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nothing outside, only this interior darkness. I could begin to sense what I feel is the mystery of the starkness and reticence of the Greek nature. Completely gregarious and bursting with dance on one side, and a dark unspeaking reserve on the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Howling persisted all night and this morning
I woke to darkness as the shutters block out any light as well as wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The small sailboats are holding steady in the
harbor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This commotion may continue for
several more days, I suppose until we are driven back to Aeolia where Aeolus
will refuse to help but send the ship off again only to arrive at the land of the
Laestrygonians. Woe is me!!</div>
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<br /></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-37518720513692899302014-05-06T10:27:00.000-07:002014-05-06T10:27:53.791-07:00Daily life in Serifos<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifAx2zSziLQ4DOlLT5uujW0R0mI_PypfGodX0isJofx61WGhpmOpBkADYidg7nuv63H8nG_euK3Sc296exAybGm3aPZTzvZHQvrIepkYZPbo8Mlu0OtsO9CSOtXNhaVO53PEg7wka73S9h/s1600/IMG_0972.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifAx2zSziLQ4DOlLT5uujW0R0mI_PypfGodX0isJofx61WGhpmOpBkADYidg7nuv63H8nG_euK3Sc296exAybGm3aPZTzvZHQvrIepkYZPbo8Mlu0OtsO9CSOtXNhaVO53PEg7wka73S9h/s1600/IMG_0972.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a>On the daily life side, I got here and realized I had not
brought the perfect jacket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The French
one I own that fits great, keeps me warm, is perfect in the wind, does well in
the rain, and is easy to pack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
daughter said, “Oh Mom, you don’t need a warm rain jacket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rain?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are going to Greece!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so
American to pack for every possibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Make do and see what happens.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All you folks!! Do not listen to your children!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do your own thinking and use your own
smarts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It rained, there is unmerciful
wind on Serifos in the month of May at least until the 15<sup>th</sup> they
tell me (she travels here in July), and at least to me, it’s very chilly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I found a shop today to buy a fleece zip-up jacket with a hood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m finally
ready to sit on the beach in the wind which is blowing consistently at about 25 to 30 mph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Numerous sailboats are nestled
close to shore seeking safety from the blustery seas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wind began just after sunrise this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was up to see the light come over the hill
across the harbor and fifteen minutes later the mood changed and Athena had
arrived to order the shift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leonardo had
postponed our lunch up to Platis Gialos because he had to join a group who were
going to disperse a dead friend’s ashes in the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought about the winds and the ashes and
couldn’t help but hope they had some experience with human remains and how ash
flies everywhere in wind and seems to grasp onto the nearest warm human body as
if to hold on to life for a moment longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I think I would love to go around in a small sailboat in the
Aegean and visit the islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure
it’s possible, but life is short and I won’t be able to do everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The life of the sea and the sailors is
another world this landlubber knows not of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I have a pair of keds and that makes me boat worthy should an
invitation come along to test the waters of the mythic sea and maybe meet
Poseidon to whom I will only offer compliments about his nymphs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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amusing daily life side: when Leonardo picked me up at the dock and we came to
the house after a brief tour of the quay, he mentioned that we hadn’t discussed
cleaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said oh yes we had, we had
agreed on a cleaning at occupancy and a cleaning at the conclusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had been his suggestion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t need a cleaning person, I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m quite able to clean up after myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But oh, he said, you may need a cleaning
person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, you might need
someone to iron your bed sheets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
replied that I don’t iron my bed sheets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To this he sucked in his breath in utter horror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I imagine how crass and uncivilized my life
has been in comparison to the Romans where Leonardo comes from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it’s an Italian thing and not a Greek
thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t see the Greek women
standing over ironing boards ironing sheets, but it has made for a great laugh
and I’m sure it will become a standard to turn down an event or two and say
that I can’t go because I have to stay home and iron my sheets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><!--EndFragment-->
Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-51993201662319806612014-05-06T02:44:00.000-07:002014-05-06T02:44:37.832-07:00Serifos and the Mycenaen world<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lion's Gate to<br />the Mycenean acropolis</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remains of the complex of <br />houses at Mycenae</td></tr>
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Travels to the ancient archeological sites took us to Mycenaean treasures and a civilization that evolved between the 16th and 12th centuries BCE. That's pretty old. The excavations suggest that the dynasty associated with Perseus, the founding father of Mycenae, were also present here. This culture is my strongest gut connection and stirred me the deepest even though Olympia, Delphi, and Athens were astounding. At Mycenae we saw the tomb of Agamemnon within the walls of the Mycenean acropolis, and the tomb of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus outside the great Cyclopean fortress. The walls of this acropolis are called "cyclopean walls" because the stones are so large that only the Cyclops could have lifted them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Agamemnon's burial site some believe<br /> that the distant mountain is <br />the outline of Agamemnon lying in state.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Agamemnon's Burial Site</td></tr>
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The reason I'm excited about it is that Serifos is where Perseus and his mother Danae landed when they were abandoned by Danae's father who was told by the Oracle at Delphi that his grandson would kill him. So, he set them adrift in a wooden chest not wanting to kill them since Perseus was also the son of Zeus. On Serifos, they were taken in by Dictys who helped raise the boy to manhood. Dictys was the brother of Polydectes, the King of Serifos.<br />
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Oh goodness, the mythology is so complex. When Perseus was grown, Polydectes fell in love with Danae but Perseus did not trust him and prevented the union. Polydectes tried to remove Perseus by challenging him to bring back the head of the Gorgon, Medusa. You remember, Medusa slept with Poseidon in the Temple of Athena, Athena got offended and turned Medusa's hair to snakes. To keep the story short, Athena agreed to help Perseus by giving him a polished shield. From Zeus he received an adamantine sword, from Hades a helmet to be invisible, from Hermes he received winged sandals, and from the Hesperides he received a satchel to carry Medusa's head after holding the eye of the Graeae for ransom to learn of Medusa's location. When Perseus found the sleeping Medusa, he looked in the reflection of the shield and thus was not turned to stone by the eyes of Medusa as he used the sword to cut off her head.<br />
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On the way back to Serifos, Perseus rescued the beautiful Andromeda by slaying the sea monster Cetus. Andromeda's mother Cassiopeia had made the claim that Andromeda was as beautiful as the Nereids, the sea nymphs, and this made Poseidon angry, and Andromeda, tied naked to a rock, could not be released until Cetus was slain. The story has many more angles to it, but Perseus does return to Serifos and learns that his mother Danae has been the victim of violent advances for her hand by Polydectes, so he turns Polydectes to stone by showing him Medusa's head. Dictys who had raised Perseus, becomes the King of Serifos with Danae his consort. Perseus eventually becomes the founder of Mycenae and lives with Andromeda until they die and are placed into the constellations near Cassiopeia. The Greeks do believe that Perseus was an authentic human and that he is the founder of Mycenae. <br />
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So that is my excitement about having been to Mycenae, seen the ancient ruins, and then to come to Serifos. The mythic subject of Serifos is exile. The Romans too exiled people to Serifos. And exile is the subject of <i>The Odyssey</i> and Joyce's <i>Ulysses,</i> both texts that have been central in my reading. Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783003800965361810.post-49612293151357091042014-05-05T00:48:00.000-07:002014-05-05T00:48:43.938-07:00At Serifos, May 5It's an early Monday morning and the village is waking up. A regular school day for the local children. One boat came in yesterday and took half the visitors away. Today another ferry will take the others. No other boats then until the coming Friday. Many restaurants and hotels will not open until June. It's quiet and nice. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Livadakia Beach looking toward<br />the Island of Ermoupoli</td></tr>
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Yesterday I found the beach I'll frequent. It's a walk over a hill and down a staircase. When I arrived it was unoccupied. Later, four people from Brittany were swimming in what they thought was very warm water. To the touch, it's not very cold. I haven't been swimming yet, but I'll surely venture in soon when the temperatures climb above 65 which has been typical. Today's high will be 64.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Livadakia Beach</td></tr>
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Manana spirit dominates here. Yesterday I bought a scarf wrap in a shop because it's chilly at night. There's a heater in my house, but I like to live without having to turn it on all the time. Anyway, the shop keeper didn't have enough coin change for me so she said, oh bring it by whenever you can...in a few days...whenever. I've found the Greeks to be very trusting which is very different from what you read in guide books. According to the Greeks, it isn't the Greeks who are creating this reputation, it's non-Greeks. I'm inclined to agree. <br />
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The images from the classical antiquities remain deep in my thought and in the evening I'm studying Ancient Greek history from Yale lectures on iTunesU. Serifos, in ancient times, was where people from the mainland were exiled and it remains a bit of a backwater place for people who want to be without pretension. Tourism is just beginning here and I'm glad to see it before the hoards come. The barren hills must have been a fearsome thing if the hills were indeed barren in those times. I wonder what you would eat although there are plenty of springs for water. You could certainly fish. I don't know how it became treeless. On the north shore there are many goat and sheep farms and perhaps these animals ate out the roots of the vegetation and the exiled peoples cut down the trees for habitats. It's very similar to Scotland—a stark and awesome beauty. I'll ask Leonardo, the agent, who will take me to lunch on Tuesday to Platis Gialos on the eastern shore. There are taverns and cafes in these little towns at the trailheads to the hideaway beaches only accessible on foot.Temple Ground Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662012364301308787noreply@blogger.com0