Turmoil and undercurrents

The epic storm hitting Alaska isn't the turmoil I had in mind. However, it is indicative of the turmoil that is stealing quietly into many minds these days.

Everyone seems to be flattening themselves down, as if a huge storm is approaching. Storms of society, the various financial and societal issues, education costs, job losses, financial strifes of various countries, cultural turmoil is what it seems to be.

People are even starting to discuss the "feeling", some kind of like waiting for a shoe to drop...where the heck did that one come from?

Italy, for Europe may be the shoe to drop. I feel for Papandreou as he was just trying to find an out,*hear me out* an out so that they would all realize either they buy in with the austerity measures, which given the protests they were NOT... but when you have to vote and put your name behind it.... then you have to think and plan and not just be wishful thinking.

These kids have been going to school and looking forward to being part of society and look, no jobs. Look they are living at home. There are NO youth jobs in Europe outside of a family business. Every job is part of the "system" full benefits, etc. No one gets a barely minimum wage job.

I wish some program would hit all of this and explain BETTER for the rest of the world what the situation is over there. And, how as one Greek writer called it, that Greece is the canary in the mine... not the odd one out.

reflection: Final months

Much of my spring I spent in a new parttime job. I thought it would be more, but mostly it took up my Feb and March. Then joy of joys I got to go to see Crufts. I wrote a post and saved it... and it DISAPPEARED!!! Not jolly good fun!

Then came April with her temper.
May the eldest returned from University and we were together one again. So many changes, so many things to do.

June rushed through. Youngest with exams and end of school. While on the school bus one morning, she came undone when she saw one of the children from her bus loaded with suitcase into the car for the airport! Reality dawns, the mythic dream is beginning to come to an end.

Quick trips in May to Meteora and June to Olympia, then July to Mykonos (to see Delos- ha fooled you!) made the ending both sweet and savory. With it comes the regrets that we did not travel more, see more do more. However, we were not tourists in this strange land, we lived it.
High schoolers and schedules determine other things. I actually heard of one parent who never made it to an island! (I am so sorry! I would have hauled you with us!)

Speaking as only a part, those who we shared this adventure with, thank you! You made the journey wonderful and the experience unique. I actually would love to know you found this.. as I haven't purposely made it easy to find.

To Greece, thank you for the experience, may the MYTHOS live on in you, and may you journey to a new level of comradery with the rest of the world you helped to create.