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Easter is coming ☘️

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Κάλαντα Πρωτοχρονιάς

Αρχή που βγήκε ο Χριστός άγιος και Πνευματικός, στη γη να περπατήσει και να μας καλοκαρδίσει.

Αγιος Βασίλης έρχεται, και δεν μας καταδέχεται, από την Καισαρεία, συ’ σαι αρχόντισσα κυρία.

Βαστά εικόνα και χαρτί ζαχαροκάρνο, ζυμωτή χαρτί και καλαμάρι δες και με-δες και με το παλικάρι.

Το καλαμάρι έγραφε, τη μοίρα του την έλεγε και το χαρτί-και το χαρτί ομίλει Άγιε μου-άγιε μου καλέ Βασίλη.

Η ιστορία για τα κάλαντα της Πρωτοχρονιάς διαδραματίζεται στο Βυζάντιο και πρόκειται για μία ιστορία αγάπης.

Εκείνα τα χρόνια, λοιπόν, οι φτωχοί και χαμηλών στρωμάτων άνθρωποι δεν είχαν το δικαίωμα να μιλούν στους αριστοκράτες-τισες, παρ�� μόνο σε γιορτές, όπου μπορούσαν να τους απευθύνουν ευχές.

Κάποιος νεαρός λοιπόν, ταπεινής καταγωγής, ήταν ερωτευμένος με μια αρχοντοπούλα.

Επειδή όμως δεν ήταν κοινωνικά αποδεκτό να την πλησιάσει, παρά μόνο σε περίοδο εορτών για να της απευθύνει ευχές, αποφάσισε ανάμεσα στα κάλαντα του Μεγάλου Βασιλείου, να εντάξει και ένα ερωτικό ποίημα, που είχε συνθέσει.

Αρχίζει λοιπόν και βάζει ενδιάμεσους στίχους ανάμεσα στις ευχές, με σκοπό να εκδηλώσει με αυτόν τον πρωτότυπο τρόπο τον έρωτά του για εκείνη.

Με αυτόν τον τρόπο και τα κάλαντα θα έλεγε, ακολουθώντας τους κοινωνικούς κανόνες αλλά ταυτόχρονα θα «παίνευε» την καλή του.

Έτσι λοιπόν την αποκάλεσε ψηλή, σαν δεντρολιβανιά!

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Firefighters battle a forest fire in Schino, Loutraki, Greece, 20 May 2021. Sixty-two fire engines crewed by 182 firefighters, seven teams of firemen on foot, a special Fire Brigade vehicle and water-dropping helicopters were out battling the blaze. Photo by Vassilis Psomas/EPA-EFE

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Gorgeous vintage posters of EOT (Greek Tourism Organisation) 

See more posters here 

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On May 20, 1891, Nikola Tesla delivered a lecture titled "Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency" before the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. In this lecture, Tesla discussed his experiments with alternating current (AC) electricity, high voltage, and high-frequency currents.

During the lecture, Tesla demonstrated various experiments, including the effects of high-frequency currents on the human body, wireless lighting, and the principles of his Tesla coil. The demonstrations were so far ahead of their time that the people in the auditorium literally started panicking and running out the doors because they thought he was doing the devil’s work.

Tesla's lecture would introduce the basic principles to the wireless transmission of energy we all use today in our everyday lives. His contributions to electrical engineering, particularly in the development and promotion of AC power and wireless, had a profound impact on the field and the wider adoption of electricity for practical use.

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Waiting for Santa 🎅

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They did it again

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Θαλασσα

Thalassa was the primordial goddess of the sea and the daughter of Aither (Light) and Hemera (Day). Mingled with Pontos, her male counterpart, she produced the fish and other sea creatures. Thalassa was the literal body of the sea and in the fables of Aesop, manifests as a woman formed of sea-water rising from her native element. Thalassa is depicted in Greco-Roman mosaics as a matronly woman, half-submerged in the sea, with crab-claw horns, seaweed for clothes, and a ship’s oar in her hand.

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“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959

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UNSCHEDULED MOMENT

A thought

A memory triggered

Solicits a need

Desire comes out from hiding

Thinking of her

Fantasies rule the mind

Desire increases as he thinks of her

A collage of pictures, videos and texts

Knowing she wants the same

Wishing she wanted it now

Alone, stroking, hips thrusting

She consumes his mind

Alone he is with her

Eyes close and he feels his climax

Moans of pleasure release into empty air

Last visions of being inside her

Warmth pools on his abdomen

Wishing she was there

Wanting her to know

So he writes