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valesoul – The Vale of Soul-Making
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The Vale of Soul-Making. The Kindness of Strangers. September 19, 2015. September 19, 2015. I witnessed this three years ago but it has returned to my mind all summer as I’ve followed the news of the refugees arriving daily to the Greek islands. What can you do? Extend the deeply-ingrained Greek hospitality, of course, but while your country is struggling to feed and employ its own? All the more reason to support it the next time you’re there). Alexander Maksik’s 2013 novel. A Marker to Measure Drift.
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Hope in Greece – The Vale of Soul-Making
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The Vale of Soul-Making. July 29, 2013. People are getting INVOLVED — Folks are DOING something, and that is a magical thing to watch, and even more magical to be involved in, my dear friend Martha wrote to me this spring from Athens. The news of Greece, as you know, hasn’t been good. Austerity strategies are a cruel joke, based on false premises. Homelessness, drug addiction, prostitution are on the rise in Athens, as you can see captured in Angelos Tzortzinis’s heartbreaking photos. Puts it one which p...
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