Roadbenders

In the plateia near the library there is a little chapel that is always locked. I have peeked in all the windows, sometimes tried the handles late at night when I was walking home tipsily from Pirate in the times before when I lived here. I had only seen it open once, last March when
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Oh joy! Oh rapture! Not a cloud in the sky! The famed Aegean light has returned! It’s a good thing we planned a trip out of town right in time for the weather to shape up. But I feel so much better. I’m going swimming.

It is still raining. There is a poem I keep trying to find that I read years ago that starts something like: The rain has washed the sky away and the clouds away and all the birds away But the trees stand. The trees stand… Only, there aren’t many trees here. A few olives, two
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first pomegranate Originally uploaded by briannaorg. It is late and Josh is working on the network in the computer lounge. It is windy outside and I took this opportunity to upload a slough of photos to Flickr. This is rather monumental, as all my late night hysterical whiskey-soaked confessions at the bars here since we
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Today it is just shy of two weeks since we arrived on the island. It has been wet and grey for three days, and this morning I awoke with my face so bitten by flies that my features had collapsed alarmingly into a dumb, swollen mass, giving me the look of a stroke victim. We
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