A book of personal memory and collective self-awareness. Looking back on his past life, the author reflects on the profound homeland that indissolubly binds together within us the voice of the land with the voice of the language and shapes our humanity.

A poetic, political, and anthropological meditation that delves into the foundations of our historical existence, to ask: what is it that makes thousands of words, thriving since the time of Homer, always blossom on our lips, while at the same time our language is reborn every day in order to remain alive? What miracle has reconciled in our soul the Greek and Christian civilizations, which once fought each other so fiercely?

How can it be explained that, despite the death of the ancient spirit in an age thirsting for money and material progress, our ancient communal ethos stubbornly survives in today’s Greece—consider our intimacy with the divine, the familiarity of our daily conversations with others, the warmth of the marketplace, the festival, and the taverna...

If we were to revive the true meaning of the words democracy, economy, ecumene, intimacy, friendship, eros, love, miracle, freedom, human, and so many others, might we make this world a little more humane, a world that becomes more and more inhumane each day?

G.K.