The Witness
My Bio, For Illumination
I never did or will do anything in the conventional manner and I won’t begin now. My Bio, will not reflect my achievements nor my goals. They are neither here nor there, and will not speak as to who I am at my core.
I would just like to share a small part of who I am and it didn’t begin with me. It began with, the others…
I was born in the country of Greece on the island of Karpathos, in the village of Spoa, as were all my siblings, parents, grandparents, great grandparents…
I think in Greek, my native language, everything I have written or will write, has and will go through the wringer of the translational process.
It isn’t as simple as it may sound, the Greek language has a rich inflection system and syntax which may be lost in translation.
I speak a Karpathian Greek, which is an Ancient Dorian dialect, rich in metaphors. Our parents used metaphors to describe nature, beauty, family, life and god… everything. Other Greeks have difficulty understanding our dialect. And because it is ancient we try to preserve it for the sake of posterity.
The oral tradition of storytelling is still a way of life, a passtime, on my island and many of the stories have been put to music thus preserving their place in our traditions. Passed on to…
