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There he sat, right under my feet! I could have spit on his shiny, bald head … the legendary Sviatoslav Richter, the finest, sublimest pianist on the planet! I could see his fingers rippling over the keyboard like water in a shallow creek. The melodies were hypnotic. The … Continue reading
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We knew we’d be hitting a city soon. The paved road gave it away. Whenever we hit it we’d hit a city soon afterwards. The longer the stretch of asphalt, the bigger the city. And this was the biggest we’d hit in quite a while … … Continue reading
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How is it that relatively unimportant scenes from our past remain etched in our memory as deeply as those of great consequence? Is it a unique scent that does the trick? A special sound or touch that triggers some hidden, genetically … Continue reading
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I woke up in the middle of a cow pasture surrounded by cows, flies and cow pies. I had no idea how I’d gotten there. None at all. I tried hard to remember but I couldn’t recall a thing! My three traveling companions … Continue reading
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The plate crashed against the stone wall and splintered into shards that lay scattered on the clean swept earth floor. We’d just settled-in at our table in a public house when that porcelain projectile flew just above our heads! We damn near jumped out of our skins! Our nerves … Continue reading
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Sometimes things just make you feel happy and warm all over. It’s a miracle really, for happiness is one of the last things that’d come to mind if you viewed our situation on this planet realistically … after all, you could say we’re just a bunch of insignificant … Continue reading
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We snuck into the taverna as if we were on recon patrol. We moved slowly, cautiously sweeping our heads to spot any sign of danger and to take an inventory of exits … just in case. It was night and we were in a low-low-rent, blue-collar waterfront neighborhood of Athens. … Continue reading
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He came crashing out of a cloud of dust like an ancient Greek charioteer swerving around potholes and bouncing over the bumps that pock-marked the sun-baked surface of the hard dirt road. He had a hi-fi blaring out Greek pop music on an ingenious German device that would play 45 RPM records without missing a beat regardless of … Continue reading
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By the time I got to Mr. Bowling Ball’s repair shop I was fuming!Because of a coup d’etat, I could not only not sell my VW, I was told by the head colonel that I had to push it through a gate miles away on the docks … … Continue reading
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We knew something was up when we drove into Patras. Groups of armed soldiers hung-out on downtown street corners. Machine gun emplacements nested at major intersections. Yep! Something was definitely up! That something was a coup d’tat successfully executed a few weeks earlier by the Greek … Continue reading
FINDING MY WAY 