AfrikaBurn 2023: South Africa. A “virgin’s” guide to the dust and survival list.

A long awaited journey. Towards freedom. A canvas where as soon as I started painting my boundaries, the next moment I would watch them dissolve and disappear together with our audacious water puddles in the desert.

Drying citrus fruits for decorations

Do you ever notice that some feelings are associated with smells?  Today it had to smell like orange. And clove. It had to be Christmas in every way possible around the house, as Christmas is the best anti-depressant for the moody winter days. Drying fruit for decorations proved to be much messier than I thought,…

Fragile dreams… (dedicated to my sister)

I have a soul that likes to hide. Half in the light and half in some very dark shadows. These two extremes have somehow found an ephemeral balance to the point of a certain kind of numbness. Never before did I feel so lost in thoughts as I do now. And never before did I…

Grandma’s rustic Spinach Pie!

Having moved to my old, (and four years abandoned) house recently, means facing everyday “decay” challenges. A house that had no electricity, many broken roof tiles and weathered wooden doors for that long, is no easy thing and as winter approaches (thank God it’s Greece) I am in a constant fight with time. A situation…