Archive for March, 2008
On Moving
We were naively excited to get the keys to our new apartment today. To say that the last tenant left without cleaning the place up might be a teensy weensy bit of an understatement. Ok, yes, I know, in Greece it is standard practice for the incoming tenant to clean the apartment, paint it and [...]
Filed under: greece, the bastards | 6 Comments
Tags: life, moving, random
Not So Alone In The City Anymore
I was going to write about tiredness today. I was going to write about how we may have found an apartment. Finally. About how it comes with a huge veranda and equally huge holes in the wall that I will, if I’m lucky, be attempting to repair on the weekend. I was going to write [...]
Filed under: friendship, homesickness | 0 Comments
Tags: friends, life, love
Gifts Received
Hurdy Gurdy’s make the saddest sound when wound slowly.
This one quietly plays the melody of home: the scent of eucalyptus, the crash of ocean waves, the smell of a neighbour’s bbq on a hot summer night, familiar handwriting on a gift tag, whispering regrets and the love of missing pieces.
Filed under: australia, homesickness, photo essay | 1 Comment
Tags: life, random, love, family, home
I am
I am bitterness and want, absence and longing need.
Irreparable.
i want your taste on my tongue.
I am softness and pain.
Patient willingness.
Pliant, quiet, complicity.
I am hidden liquidity.
i want the sight of you.
I am sorrow, loss, rage.
I am petulant sullenness.
Defiance despairing in need.
I am aggrieved.
i want your mark on my skin.
Anemone by Jim @ www.unprofound.com
Filed under: confessions, moi, the lovers | 0 Comments
Tags: desire, life, random, sex
The Possibilities of Backyards
Recently we’ve been looking for a new apartment to make our home. Yesterday we found ourselves willing to pay 100 Euros over what we had originally budgeted because a place we’d found promised a back yard. In the centre of Athens, finding an apartment with a backyard, of any sort — even if it is [...]
Filed under: australia, dad, greece, short stories, the past | 2 Comments
Tags: family, lifestyle, love, memories, random, stories
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