Wake Up, You're Back in Greece

Then and Now

Our blog "Temenos" has been roused from its slumber, reawakened after nine wintery months of silence. The occasion for this "unstifling" is an epic father-daughter trip to Hellas--a trip from the "then" to the "now," with a possible excursion to the "what if": forty-seven days of temenos.




And what is "temenos" beyond the name of our blog? Temenos is both a physical place--the "temple" or "shrine"--and also a kind of abstraction: not just a place of sanctuary, the sacred precinct of the ancient world, but a creative, emotional, and spiritual place that is somehow carved off, cut off, or made distinct from the rest of the physical world. For the authors of the blog temenos is the family itself--a place of refuge.








And so we seek to find our "temenos"--a place of refuge, solace, and reflection. Under the cobalt sky and amid the ancient olive groves that rub shoulders with the wine blue Aegean.