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Alkistis (Lola) Avgeris - Aλκηστις (Λόλα) Αυγέρη is a Canadian-born, Greek artist painter, educated in Canada, France, and Italy. Proud, straight descendant of Ancient Spartans, she follows and examines the paths of her ancestors in Laconia, and divides her life in between two realities: Greek and American. She lives in Washington, District of Columbia with her husband and her three children: Orestis, Odysseas and Kallisto.

Thursday, 21 November 2013

Our End of Greek Summer


Anavyssos, Greece
 
Written on 26th of August, 2013


There are two months in a year I love the most: June and August. First, because people I love were born in June: my father, my brother, my husband and my son…and then there is August, the month of fulfilled dreams, the month of lions, I was... born in August…Well, I am not that big lioness, rather a small one…August is also the warmest month of the year, and as long as I remember, we have always spent it in Greece. I love August, the month of the shooting stars. We have seen many of them this year. This August was very special to me. I had the first vacation with the man I love, and with our son.

Our last week-end in Greece is over ….on Thursday we will close the doors of our new home here, and say Good Bye to Anavissos, to Glyfada, to Sparta, and to Gythion, to all those places we have in our blood. Until next summer they will stay in our thoughts and in our dreams. We will remember warm winds in the morning, and the smell of the citrus trees in the yards…

We will miss all that, and we will talk about it ….





 

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