Month: December 2024

Midlife

"Are you satisfied with your life?" a friend recently asked me. "No! Absolutely not," I blurted out. I'm living a life that is shaped in

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Four Days Of Solitude

At a quarter past midnight, the last ferry for four days left Patmos. Most likely, it brought some additional food inventory for the supermarkets. The

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Silent Night And Day

On Sunday evenings in April and May 2022 I found Patmians sitting at tables at all the outdoor cafes in Skala, having coffee, ouzo, wine

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Values Proposition

"The installation might cost you 100 euros, maybe 120 or 140 if you have stone, you can ask Dimitris," Costas explained. " But maybe it

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A Patmos Empire

"Everyone comes in the summer and sees how beautiful it all looks – all the white and the shining windows," Stefanos who rents the motorscooters

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A Well Built Boat

In a rare treat, yesterday was not only Christmas, but the first night of Hanukkah – something any Jew in the Western World outside of

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Seasonal Menu

"So it's like cream?" Manolis asked me. "Well, yes – like cream and milk, but also with eggs and nutmeg. Americans, British, Germans, maybe Australians

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Spiritual Places

"Doesn't it feel like a movie set? I doesn't feel real," Michelle said as we walked home the other night. Matheus said the same thing

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