Sunday 18 March 2007

Brighter than ever

A weekend in Ano Skotina seemed like a good idea last week. Now that I am back from it, I say it was not just a good idea, but a brilliant one; a "nothing better than this" idea.
Every time I go there I realize that I am deeply connected with this place. Since the very first day that I have stepped my feet on its ground, muddy and gently fed by the rain, I have been hearing voices calling me there...Sounds mystic eh? Well, indeed, cause, among others, it's a very mystical place; in all its senses.

And beautiful; oh yeah beautiful! With a magnificent view, capturing your eyes in an endless trip to aesthetically perfect...Brightness sent by the sun or the stars somehow adjust the "screen" in front of you and no fucking TFT can be compared with that...

This time it was brighter than ever! With a spring sun lovingly hitting our faces, but with our continuous questioning, linked to environmental crisis "wow, how is it possible to have a summer in the middle of March"...

Numerous of inspiring facts and incidents that created a "pack of experience" so disproportional with its cost (not talking about money here) that makes me wonder "why should I deserve this?"...Maybe I do...

The participants' pictures from my last training course there, 5 months ago, still decorating a wall of the hostel; a very emotionally charged moment for me when I saw them...

Now, I turn my computer's screen into a mirror and I speak out "You have plans for this place Sakis, don't forget, you have plans...dreams no plans"


Until next time, my endless and immense respect to mother nature for supplying us with reasons to live and desires to change, even if, for thousands of years, is violently raped by, us, irresponsible dipeds...But I love human beings as much as I adore mother nature (in any way, they are its part) so please consider the angerness lying behind my very last words as a trigger to transformation.


There is hope; I have found one...

Sunday 4 March 2007

The Corporation

It was a month ago when I sat in front of my TV to fill my head with some crap; I very seldom do it, don't worry! It turned out to be very fruitful what I did. Although I was in time to watch less than half of it, I concluded that this documentary is a "must have" and "must watch several times" piece of inspiration. The Corporation, has a web site that I visited a couple of times after watching it on TV (www.thecorporation.com) trying to get info on how I can have it on a DVD or whatever. Then the time went by, I landed back to my daily life, being occupied with everything else than a whole world around me that is being continuously destroyed, fooled and used for the sake of money; exactly as it is depicted in "The corporation"...
Mass media have developed a great relationship with crap the last years and newspapers couldn't be different. So, the 3 DVD's that a sunday newspaper offer are moved directly to the garbage bin. It happens sometimes though that nice things included. I was lucky to find "The corporation" in one newspaper. In fact, I was "wwwooooooooow...f**k, I stopped looking for it, and it managed to find me!"
Put it on the DVD player, take a comfortable seat (144 minutes), empty your mind from nothingness and REALIZE we are nothing more than PUPPETS, MANNEQUINS, helpless antelopes in the teeth of cruel, rabid hyeanas that tear apart our already violated being/existence.
BUT, the film finishes with a breeze of hope; hope sourced in the souls of indignated people; hope visualized through actions that have already managed to bring changes, even slight; actions undertaken by daily people; sometimes even alone...yes alone.
Reading "Banners & Draggons" an incredibly creative book made by Amnesty International and given to me by a group of wonderful friends of AI, Greek Branch, "If you think you are too small to be effective then you have never been in bed with a mosquito"...
Find the film, watch it, watch it again, reflect on it but keep in mind that there is a fear of getting sick of yourself; well it might then be a shock strong enough to lead to action.

Well well done to Mark Acbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan for creating this masterpiece.
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