Temenos 2024

 

Temenos: A Family Journal 2024

 

Fifteen years have passed since we loaded up our three kids in Downeast Maine, locked the door, and moved to Greece, for what was intended as a one year sabbatical in a sleep fishing village on the Mediterranean.

 

In that year—2009–this family blog was born in a magical and storied place in the southwestern Peloponnese, where the Aegean meets the Ionian Sea, beside a strip of white sand and cobalt sea in a village called Finikounda.

 

Our residence there was transformative in several ways. Most of all, an old vision was reborn, an ill-defined dream that extended back thirty years to a time when owning a little house in Greece seemed the stuff of fantasy.

 

In that year—sadly reduced to five months, owing to an ailing parent in America who needed our help—the dream became a passion. And then an obsession—living in the land that my grandparents left behind one hundred years earlier, in search of a better life.

 

Now the circle has been completed. Nearly.