Monthly Archives : September 2017

As Konstantinos Vita (composer) says: “Because it’s Saturday night, Saturday night, Saturday night…”

Today, along with many other big heroes, I became a petite one. Mission accomplished this Friday too: 660klm driving in 7 hours.
But, it is Friday and everything is fine!!!

I once again realized I don’t have an umbrella. Every year the same situation. They either brake or enter into another dimension and disappear. That’s a mystery…
Bollocks, I’ll go buy another one. 

I have been carrying a large load for quite some time. I just managed to stabilize it and lift it up a little higher. Luckily, my friends and family help me. A little more and I’ll be able to push it even further. Not that it won’t ground me once it gets heavier again… Does fighting ever end?

“Everydayness” today is 2 months old!

People come to you for a reason. So Ralph came to me today, with his magic hands and his sparkling eyes, and taught me this: To be aware not to be absent while being present in my own ship, to meet myself sometime – somewhere, to accept immortality and most of all not to become a silly Hollander.

Today it is grey. I like it though, as it is the first of the plenty grey days that will come, in this corner of the plain. So, our mood has not faded yet.

We all need to pause sometimes. If that button wasn’t necessary, it wouldn’t have existed. We need to freeze the picture and until we get back, not to miss the scene, the song, the plot. But…. just a minute…. I’ll be back s o o n …..         c   o   m   i   n   g  !….         i   n            a            w     h      i      l       e           -e        e           e

There are some situations that change every 10 seconds. Developments are staggering, the suspense grows even if you know that there will be a happy end. But will it be? Or the director will change his mind to make an overturning? Cliche, but life is like a movie. And we never know what will happen on the next tone.

Today, at work I was a bit down. “I see…” said my friend, colleague, brother, Thanasis who knows me inside out. He opens youtube, hits the play button and says: “I thought I should play Depeche Mode because I see you are in a Depressed Mode.” LOL! I LOVE that person!

The anniversary is when we looked at each other. But I do not remember exactly when was our first day, I guess it always has been… I know you remember everything, I am the goldfish in this relationship. However, the day we celebrated with friends and beloved ones -and a priest- was exactly 9 years ago. Whenever we think about it, we wonder: 9 years? No way! Maximum 2-3 years. Isn`t it fun that it seems so short? Or is it that I am a goldfish?

Nothing to say, the picture says it all.

Old age is another planet, especially for those who feel young at heart.

I saw a medusa today in the sea. It was not a simple jellyfish, but a big Medusa.
Curious creatures, they are… But, at least I was lucky enough to go to the sea, late September, on a Monday, with 40 degrees heat!

The reason I love Athens is probably that I have it in my mind as an old Greek movie.
On my walks in Athens, I am searching little things left from the old days.
It is a big city. Big enough to find remains.

Note: Yes, today’s Everydayness can also be considered a political positioning.

Small-elder hit and make bumps, only for 2 reasons. Either because of our own fault or by someone else`s.
The treatment in the bump is ice, and in the fault, the change.
And not to forget, Everydayness is our graphic diary.

(on the drawing: What`s that -all of a sudden- mess?)
It’s some days that start perfectly and then, all of a sudden and tragically cinematically they become confused. I have this book at my office, it’s called “good fairies and bad fairies. Today I think I was visited by the elf that brings confusion. I have to find his name.

May money rest in peace… It is dead for all of us and alive only for the least minority. Amen.

There are people who are like trees. Stable, rooted -granted I would say-, generous. The trees live out and endure all the conditions in all seasons. One would say (from another perspective) that they chose to be self-punished. But, that is their nature.
I have a tree in my house that grows hearts. She is called “Eftichia” (means Felicity) and she is my mother.
“I am a tree that grows hearts” is my favorite verse, of my beloved artist Bjork, from my beloved Bachelorette.

Finally, I’m a “twisted” person. My mother was right about that. In the 1st Primary school seemed very small, I was not afraid, but I had a passion. I felt like a giant, like Alice in Wonderland, which is a favorite reading. Day after day I was getting smaller. By the 3rd Lyceum, I had become an ant and the school swallowed me.

In Greek, we often call Mondays “Shoemaker-Monday”. We mean that it is a heavy duty day and thus, we feel stressed hearing that word.
But most of us do not know this: The “Shoemaker-Monday” was a holiday of the shoemakers after Sunday! Ultimately, it is good to know all the angles before deciding which way to look.