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Home Again
by admin on May 19, 2011
Olympia
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Delphi
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Island of Aegina
by admin on April 19, 2011
I arrived in Athens Sunday, met my friends from The Examined Life, and feel as if I may have lived here in a previous life. Driving into Athens from the airport, the lemon and olive trees, the sea and the mountains felt like home. Yesterday we went to Corinth, and visited the place where Paul was exonerated of charges that he’d preached against the Romans. Red poppies covered the hillsides. When I was a student, and more recently, reading Greek literature, I could never keep straight who was a mere mortal, who a hero, and who was a god. Somehow here it all falls into place. We happened to be traveling with an expert on ancient sanitation systems. Her insights added a slap of reality to it all. Then on to Mycenae to visit Agamemnon’s tomb (where he most likely was not buried – if, in fact, he truly lived at all). Driving past the gnarled 200-year-old (only guessing, it may be more) trunks of olive trees, I began to feel that this slippery grasp of reality and truth must make life a little easier to hang on to here. I wonder if I’ll take some of that away with me. We then went on to Epidurias (apologies for spellings, which seem to vary) – a place of healing. In the theater, which seats 12,600 ailing souls, built two millennia BC, Ashley Bryant recited Langston Hughes poetry. Squealing hordes of European teen-agers stopped crawling all over the theater and stopped to listen. He IS a national treasure. Definitely the high point. Today we’re off to Egina, where a friend of Barbara Harrison (founder of The Examined Life) will host us for the day. More soon.
by admin on April 19, 2011
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Home Again

It was good to be home from Greece – exactly one night in my own bed – then off again to speak at the Pennsylvania School Librarians, then to various schools and conferences – all wonderful, and now home again to focus on writing projects, The Gathering (check it out: www.gathering.keystone.edu) and other business. Will [...]

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