Easter in my fa… — in my — village has left behind such a mountain of tangled emotions and thoughts and joy and sadness that it’ll take me weeks, months…maybe never, to sort it all out and write anything coherent about it. Almost feel like I don’t want to. But here are some teaser pics in the meantime. (double-click on all)
Tags: Albania, Derviçani, Dropoli, Easter, Epiros, fathers, Orthodox Christianity, xeniteia
[…] nothing as naughty as all that. Just Epiphany in my village of Derviçani (and here), Dropoli, Albania. Cantor on the right-hand of deacon is Giannes Bakos, village’s great […]
Me, I'm Nicholas Bakos, a.k.a. "NikoBako." I'm Greek (Roman really, but when I say that in English some five people in the world today understand what I'm talking about, so I use "Greek" for shorthand). I'm from New York. I live all over the place these days. The rest should become obvious from the blog.
See "JADDE: THE MISSION AND STARTING OFF, the blog's first entry below, and JADDE: THE NAME OF THIS BLOG for my general agenda:
Please contact me with comments, questions, complaints or -- please -- corrections at: nikobakos@gmail.com and on Twitter: @jaddeyekabir
Jadde: from Bosnia to Bengal
Looks like a good time to be had with some great people.
Beautiful. It’s rare that we get a look of what is going on among Greeks in Albania without having to hear about ‘Vorio Ipiros’ and ‘Chameria’ back and forth.