tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post6040252938732193420..comments2024-03-28T08:30:57.453-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: Greece is Endless.Ovidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-32844057825112740952013-01-20T03:28:55.772-05:002013-01-20T03:28:55.772-05:00I am so glad that I read the comments to this love...I am so glad that I read the comments to this lovely piece -- Poppy, your story after seeing these beautiful photos somehow completes it! <br /><br />Some day I will get to Greece...Other Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08079055348844157557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-89304252436845693122013-01-19T10:23:42.713-05:002013-01-19T10:23:42.713-05:00Poppy mou, the pleasure was all mine. It's th...Poppy mou, the pleasure was all mine. It's the very least I could do as thanks for sharing the photos and your family's story with me. And speaking of stories, your mother seems an endless source...her journey from occupied Greece into Nazism's heart to save her brother is simply WOW material. And, yes, I'll let you know when #6 is debuting but if you were reading it now on a Kindle the page reference would be "1%", maybe:)Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-64067409745388560802013-01-19T10:06:41.388-05:002013-01-19T10:06:41.388-05:00Euxaristo xilies fores! Thank you a thousand times...Euxaristo xilies fores! Thank you a thousand times, Jeffrey Siger! You HONOR me and you honor my Mother Alexandra’s memory by writing today’s blog about Gythion in The Mani of Greece! Speechless, I am without written or spoken words, at the thought that you will include part of my family’s history in your next 6th volume! You must promise me that you will give me advance notice so that I can join you for your 6th volume’s Debut. I will make every effort to be there.<br /><br />True, my Mother left Greece during WWII because of a man, her brother Panayotis, who suffered “shell-shock”, now called PTSD. She transported him to Vienna, Austria over Nazi-controlled railroads so that he could get psychiatric treatment. My mother was both his guardian and translator. In 1947, she was able to leave Vienna and immigrate to the U.S. thanks to another man, my Father George of Eternal Memory, who responded to my mother’s written appeals for assistance. My mother lived in and loved the United States, but left her heart in Gythion, Greece.<br /><br />Jeff, you validate my beliefs that we must be the oral story-tellers, like Homer, of our own family’s history. Under my birth name Calliope, I burst with pride that I am your Muse today as I was Homer’s Muse millennia ago. AXIOS! Worthy! You who are more Greek than The Greeks!<br />Poppy Psinakis Pattersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00220261240941668687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-35135725299063244152013-01-19T02:38:19.448-05:002013-01-19T02:38:19.448-05:00Thank you, my friend. Coming from someone who'...Thank you, my friend. Coming from someone who's "Indiana Jones" life could be an adventure series in itself, that's great praise indeed, Yianni!Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-86428605597408552822013-01-19T02:19:07.836-05:002013-01-19T02:19:07.836-05:00So appreciative of your support of Greece at times...So appreciative of your support of Greece at times like this. Your books and blog make people travel there and supports the locals. Hello to Stavro! Yianni Melas<br />Yiannihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16596556361575009175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-46715000822102587352013-01-19T02:06:05.934-05:002013-01-19T02:06:05.934-05:00Thanks, Leighton, and I'm sure Poppy's mom...Thanks, Leighton, and I'm sure Poppy's mom's downfall was a man. Always is in Greece:). And speaking of missing, Annamaria, I zigged in NYC when you zagged to Florence. We'll have to make-up for that--and soon! Always glad to bring you sunshine. Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-36208864592452096742013-01-19T01:25:34.604-05:002013-01-19T01:25:34.604-05:00Jeff, thanks so much for these beautiful, sunny ph...Jeff, thanks so much for these beautiful, sunny photos in the midst of gloomy winter days! Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-51684684312078673892013-01-19T00:36:18.793-05:002013-01-19T00:36:18.793-05:00Heart-stopping gourgeous, Jeff.
Poppy, how your Mo...Heart-stopping gourgeous, Jeff.<br />Poppy, how your Mom must have missed it.<br />It could only have been economics -- or a very attractive man -- that drove/lured her away.Leighton Gagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09788807904434180290noreply@blogger.com