Xenia and the Atlantis Books (by EVH)
The idea of xenia, or guest-friendship, has been central to Greek culture since ancient time as implied in numerous mythological stories. The suitors in the Odyssey deserve their label as “enemy” because of their violation of exactly this…
Chantal
it's been almost a month since I left the lovely atlantis books. the day I returned to new york, it felt like I had awoken from a beautiful (long and incredibly lucid) dream that was already fading from my grasp, changed in a way that I couldn't…
Beck
It is a month now since I departed the cliffs, cats, books and heat of Santorini. Yet it is still fresh in my mind, buried deep somewhere in my tummy, and a clip of some magical film as I close my eyes. Oia, a place where artists stay throughout…
Lyndsey Redding
Santorini is a paradise of paradox. The dark, foreboding stretch of a sleeping dragon cuts sharply through the sublime calm of the sea. White washed cliff dwellings bounce light from an otherwise black, and dark landscape. It is a picture,…
Clara McBride
Santorini. Atlantis Books. Bergman's bittersweet soundtrack playing over and over, a rustic flûte calming as I watch the sun set. It really is as I imagined. It will be hard to leave.
The white…
Haiku
Beneath the moonlight
The cliffs are fingers of a
Great hand that shakes me
I’ve got less than a month left here. I’m not sure when I’ll be back and at the same time that this lack of knowledge worries me I am assured by my memories of…
Chrichton
the ferry we came in on sounded like a dieing sea monster, that doesn't sound good does itwill commented. no it doesn't. i coud see tim standing on the edge of water in his long tattery coat. 'that will be one of them' i thought to myself. when…
Still I am obsessed with things.
Up before the others today I woke in the front room with the remains of last night's dinner on the huge folding wooden table beside me. Candles clean plates, some leftovers of Maria's lentils and Oliver's potatoes in the big pots, the stunningly…
Notes from a small island
The others have been urging me to write a journal entry for the past several weeks and honestly, I don't think I have been ready to write anything down until now. Since I arrived here on February 20, I have been bombarded with stimulation and…
Ursala's 2 cents
I left Santorini, Greece about a week ago, and already my adventures seem like a dream. The images that will always be clear are the sunsets from the deck of the soon to be bookshop of my dear new friends Tim, Chris, Craig, and Maria. Those…