Temenos 2022--It Takes a Village

 

Temenos 2022—It Takes a Village

 

 

JFK in 2009

Back in 2009, we packed our family bags for a six-month adventure, gathered up three kids, and headed off to a small fishing village in the southwestern Peloponnese. Our family blog, Temenos, was born that winter. 

Evyenia and Manny, Acropolis 2009

Nearly fourteen years have passed and a lot has changed—in our family, in the world community, and most profoundly in the nature that surrounds us. And, of course, our kids are now grown adults.

 

Ancient Messene, March 2009

In the intervening years, the author of this blog kept alive a forty-year-old dream: renovating a traditional stone-brick house in an olive grove near a rural village in his family’s patrida (“fatherland”), which his four grandparents left more than one hundred years earlier.

Deep in the weeds--an old wreck

Chipping away for nine years...

 

Years of travel, work, and studies in Fair Hellas has transformed my outlook, refined my passions, and fed my soul.

 

Without regrets, this blog shares stories and images of our intermittent life in Greece. 

Λυπουμαι γιάτι άφησα να περάσει ενα πλατύ ποτάμι

μεσα απο τα δάχτυλά μου ποταμι

χωρις να πιω ουτε μία σταλα.

"I regret that I let slip through my fingers a wide river without drinking a single drop."

                          --George Seferis, Mithistorima, c.1963