Thank you

Almost step by step

Also the police have been reduced to militia

At this point, it doesn’t seem like an inability as much as a deliberate shift… A librarian friend in the US mentioned a significant uptick in funding for libraries to collect materials like family archives. Makes you wonder—are we seeing the creation of a new commons to train the next dataset?

From the series “Stranger, Friend and Faithful Partner”

Walking past the Dentrakia, I recall our breakfast table, now just a memory. At night, tsipouro lingers under swaying trees, lending coherence to the chaos as we savour olives, goat’s cheese, and sausage. The past clings, resisting the tides of modernity. #Greece

Since I quit smoking, I find it harder to approach strangers. Smoking made me ubiquitous, like walking a dog. Without it, I feel distant, observing rather than participating. A cigarette was once a quiet bridge—now, conversations feel harder to light.

Ithaca’s famed wooden boats, once crafted for the multiport trade, are now fiberglass ghosts. The mythic allure remains, whispering through the salt air, lingering in the tides. What is lost, what remains, and what still drifts into memory?

Hope they find the places of worship act 1991