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Welcome To My Home

Karpathos, Greece.

Pomegranates, have been hung on our doors, an ancient ritual, a talisman, said to bring us bounty, the bounty that the summer ahead will gift us with.

Persephone, has left her kingdom, the underworld and has been reunited with her mother. Demeter, rejoices and the earth will sprout, springing upward — watered by the tears of a mother who has awaited the return of her lost, beloved…