2021 Still Together: Another Anthology of Shorts

I proudly present: 2021 Still Together. Now available to order here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08PJGDZLT/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1

‘Writer’s Block’

Dear future Historian,

I could swear that I won’t make it. But why would I ever swear such a thing? It is funny what words are coming out of people’s mouths. Heavy words. Words that fall down on them like sticky honey, only to attract bees and… what am I even saying? (Have bees survived in your time?)

Anthology 2

 Dear Future Historian,

My cat has no idea about the pandemic. No clue at all. She is just laying here carelessly, on her cushion-bed, completely unaware that this is the first time that I am living in something you see on the ‘news.’ It’s a bit like being inside a post-apocalyptic movie, hoping it’s not a Tarantino film.

My sunflower scheme interview is on YouTube

 Dear future historian,

I have an assessment left in a couple of days, and some other stuff I must first do, before I can enjoy your company again; but.. my sunflower scheme interview is on YouTube, and I thought to share the links with you here.

Quick question (20 seconds) :

https://youtu.be/siw55r89JCs

Chat (4min 31sec) :

https://youtu.be/gULy0edpxZE

#raiseawareness

Topic: boundaries

Dear Future Historian,

So.. tomorrow morning, I have a recording about my sunflower lanyard! That's quite exiting. But, as you know by now my dear future Historian.. I am not totally coping lately. I have two assignments due coming Thursday, and I haven't written, but 340 words so far. Also, I have neglected you. And.. you know. When I neglect you that always mean that I neglect myself. Today I had an epiphany. Well, not sure if it counts as epiphany, because Dayna Martin helped me get to that realization.. but still. It was like she was my muse.

Just thought to say hi, before I sleep

 Dear future historian,

I really missed you.

But I had to overcome a bit of a burn out, a bit of break up, a bit of paperwork, a bit of rearranging the house, regaining a room.. (remember that I had 'ask' for one?* Well.. I have one now! - still same house.) Long story short: I missed you.

(* https://dearfuturehistorians.blogspot.com/2020/07/weeping-angels-survivors.html )

It's my name day today. Facebook reminded me, I had totally forgotten.

Autism parenting stories

Dear Future Historian,

I had two home labours.

Not really because I am brave, but because I was with my sister when she had her baby, in a private posh clinic. She was induced, but then they didn't let her push because her doctor was late, and the happy ending of a beautiful, healthy boy distracted us from the fact that that night, her first night as a mum, she didn't stop crying on my solder, after 26 hours in a labour that could last much less. I was 19 then and didn't pay much attention to the underlying PTSD that I also got that night.

My new book is ready!

Did you like my Dear Future Historian blog?

Do you wish you could touch it? Hold it like a teddy bear? Put it under your pillow? Offer it as a precious gift to your loved ones?
Do you get tired of reading from a screen, and wished you could have it on paper?
I worked hard to make all these wishes come true.
Available for purchase on Amazon. ;-)

UK link:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08H6NMCTT/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1599084013&refinements=p_27%3ALotous+Michalopoulou&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Lotous+Michalopoulou

USA link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H6NMCTT

Stay safe and take care

 30/08/2020

 Dear future historian,

Wow! My summer blog-posting challenge is officially completed! Now a new season is about to start, a season with uni and school commutes.

On dreams

 Dear Future Historian,

 

Let’s talk about dreams. The, so called, 5^th dimension. This mythopoetic realm of Chronos. Where time is irrelevant, and continuity unnecessary. The best efforts of our subconscious to talk to us, according to Carl Jung.

The lost girl (poem)

Once upon a time there was a little girl who got lost in the maze of Time.

She had hidden there a long time ago because from a young age she learned how harsh reality can become. And now she was afraid to go out.

Are you reading what I am writing, or am I writing what you are reading?

Someone

somewhere, at

some point.. opened a book. And

 as s/he turned, or

              scrolled, in the first

page,    imagined.. and

              created..

'DIY' (Do It Yourself) - short story script

This is a story about psychological-problem-solving. It is in tree parts, tree versions, with the same beginning, but different choices that the hero makes, different approaches on how to solve an internal-crack...

My weirdest story

Dear future historian,

 

In my bucket list I 'had to' be somewhere ancient in 2000 New Year’s Eve. Somewhere historically interesting. I had been in Athens a gazillion times, so I thought to go to Rome, since the Pyramids were too expensive. Having a limited budget, I went with a private coach company, with a very financially attractive package. It was supposed we'd do an Italy tour, and spent New Year’s Eve in Rome.

'Salvation'

 So.. once upon a time (let's say at the end of the 80s) there was a girl with a long bucket list. Going to see the Olympic games was part of that list. She wasn’t really interested in sports

It was the history of the games that she admired. The ancient custom of stopping battles, even during war, that she admired. Well.. she knew that was not happening anymore, but still, she always wanted to be part of history. The Olympic games had (in her mind) some of the magic of the ancient philosophers or something.

Miracle engineering

8:10 am

Dear future historian,

 

Sometimes we already have what we asked for, and we don't even know, we don’t even notice. I saw a tree some days ago, that reminded me of one of my stories. It looked like another important tree of my life.

On free will

08:44pm

Dear future historian,

 

I had lovely walks in the last two days. I know everyone is boiling, but I love this whether. I am usually cold and because I get sensory issues with cloths, I need to wear many layers to not be cold, and then I get claustrophobic in my own skin (actually cloths.) In this weather finally I feel free, with just one layer.

Some more Sartre

 10:18 pm

Dear future historian,

Let’s stay a bit more on the topic of self-creation. *

I agree with Jean-Paul Sartre’s key ideas. **

In contrast of a chair, humans create their blueprints themselves. Using materials from their ancestor’s genes and legends, and each of them combines that with their own experiences, shaped by their choices, to create the prototype for the next generations. They, when their turn comes, will keep changing that ideal, to leave their legacy to their progeny. In a way there is a shape-shifting archetypal ideal, that perpetually changes, and each of us takes part in its endless creation.

'Every choice reveals what we think a human being should be'

 8:35pm

Dear future historian,

 

Remember my Sartre comment last time? At uni's forum now they speak about self-creation, Sartre, the idea that a certain human nature isn't a thing.. and all that.

The conversation started by a tutor with this video:

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/philosophy/thinkers/jean-paul-sartre-and-existential-choice

What strikes me most in that idea is that: 'According to Sartre, every choice reveals what we think a human being should be.'

Interconnection, through-out history

Dear future historian,

01:43pm

The thought of you started when I was a child. One day, when I was about 9 or something, I saw the coolest thing I had seen so far. Archaeologists discovering skeletons, just a block from our flat. Greece is full of ancient stuff if you dig (the metro in Thessaloniki is being paused by ancient discoveries about a million times by now (since the '80s!)

Tough love

3:23 Μ.Μ.

Dear future historian,

 

I still can't really swim. Born and raised in Greece, where almost everyone knows. When I was 6, I had a panic attack, when the military-minded dad of one of my peers tried to teach me how to swim using tough-love methods. He just left me where I..

Thoughts of Immortality

Thursday 30/07/2020 7:56pm

Dear future historian,

Still most of my peers at uni think immortality is a terrible idea (In the philosophy forum.)

As I might have mentioned before, I was -and still am- quite surprised when I started this ongoing conversation, about 20 years ago, and I found out how much everyone seemed to be terrified by thoughts of immortality. Even death seems less scary to most people that endless life.

Adulting (and support network)

Dear future historian,

Bitter sweet today (29/07/2020).. My only 3 friends in the city are leaving. 'Party' night, but with the separation sadness. It's not that I am alone, I have my mum and my kids, but it's nice to have a wide support network. And now my friends will leave, and it's not like the pandemic leaves many opportunities to meet new people. So, now I have no one nearby to have a 'socially-distance' meeting.. only FB** calls.

Most of my friends are in the sea side in Greece and I hate them anyway.  😛

I would be in Greece too now, we had plain tickets for a trip to Thessaloniki. We cancelled after the lockdown. We live in weird times. Yet, as humans, what we do best is to adapt. And we will. And life will go on. Hopefully with us.

'The ultimate Truth' Short story

‘What it would take you to believe that you have found the ultimate Truth?’ His interlocutor asked our protagonist.

That was the stupidest question he ever heard, he thought. Yet, his initial impression, of the obviousness he thought the answer had, faded away when he couldn’t find any words to form it.

‘Well, everyone’, he heard himself say, without being sure of what his next sentence would be, ‘has different standards to that question, influenced by their character, their environment and their experiences. No one can really be objective. I don’t even trust what would convince me as the ultimate Truth. In order to really make a believer out of me, I have to have multiple people’s accounts; people that I will know every little detail about them.’

My self-diagnosis notes

Dear future historian,

I decided to take the risk and announce that I will try -just try for now- to write every other day, actually every even number date of the calendar, at least by midnight. At least till uni starts.

Today I thought to share with you the list that I mentioned** I did, b4* my diagnosis, of 'why I think I am autistic.' 

Post-diagnosis (the official one) is a time for re-telling -without any doubt anymore- my whole life's story for me now, so I am in a reading-old-files/diaries mode.

Existential terror crises

Dear future historian,

 

24/07/2020

1:41pm

I am having a small existential terror crisis, Steven-Fryed induced, bless him. So, remember the ‘Victorian secrets?’ Apparently, the Spiritual movement started as a ripple effect, by some ‘Fox sisters,’ that fraud people using.. sound effects (!) to convince ppl* they communicate with ghosts. So.. you know, then YouTube algorithm suggested Fry's documentary, that he speaks about being bipolar and gives a brief description of how the manic episodes manifest differently on each person; in some it can be something like a religious fever, or god-syndrome, or.. spirituality obsession. Then Sam Harris in a podcast the other day talked about fraud-gurus..

Post-diagnosis

Dear future historian,

There is a tiny numbness, after my diagnoses. But it is not caused by it. Quite the opposite. I feel like if the un-officiality of my self-diagnosis (not to mention the years of ignorance b4* that,) had deeply affected my understanding of myself and my needs.

Many people don’t understand the reason to seek a piece of paper to make it official. Others don’t even understand why someone would get to the trouble of research to self-diagnose. And all reactions are valid. I am only sharing my story, in the hope to help create, for you my dear future historian, a more inclusive world.

Intergalactic cable, or penguins?

Dear future historian,

 

My need to dedicate my journals to.. someone, started in my teens. I was raised in a born-again Christian family, and it was not a matter of debate whether there is any kind of privacy at all, even in my head. Both God and the devil supposed to have my brain's passwords or something, and I would have to be judged, or at least forgiven, for each thought that had questionable motives.

Thus my thoughts had a feeling of.. how do we see in the movies these interrogation rooms with the double mirror, that’s glass from the other side? And I always thought it looked silly when people used it as a mirror, as if they didn't know that they were being watched.

My autism diagnosis is finally official!

Dear Future historian,

It is finally official! Today was my assessment and I can now declare myself as proudly autistic, with a diagnosis.

Wow! About 3 years in a w8ing* list, 2 years before that till I actually take the courage to get in that list, and b4** that 34 years of ignorance.. of not knowing why I am so different from most people, and so similar to a few.

Cosmogony myth and gods' family dysfunction

The Mother-goddess and the Father-god.. were struck by the arrows of Eros (or Cubit if you prefer,) which pre-existed.

At first, their chemistry surprised even Eros himself.

Their wedding was magical. And it was a source of inspiration to songwriters and storytellers over centuries, echoing the magnificence of their union. Yet, as the "Chinese whispers" or maybe as some kind of distorting mirror, the ‘wedding’ was considered to fit at the end of a story, and gradually moved itself there.

Weeping angels survivors

Dear future historian,

Remember when I went to India in 2001 (five and a half months in a biblical school?) What happened to those journals? I think there left in Greece, in my sister's shed or something. I hope you find them. So, I was remembering India today. And that woman again that I saw two men 'casting demons' out of her, by shaking her head, violently, and blaming her screams to the demons, not their harassment. That was the moment of..

13th or 14th of July 2020

Dear future historian,

Is it 13th if you haven't sleep yet, or 14th after 12am?

Not really in the mood for much today. I get that kind of blue, every time, some days after a trip. Also a million people haven't bought my book yet, and our tickets for visiting Greece were canceled because of the pandemic.

What's wrong with me?

Dear future historian,

 

There is something very weird going on with me. I don’t know if it’s my neurodiversity or whatever.. but I noticed it yesterday.

So, I was reading a small thought experiment, not designed to make you decide or question something, just asks you to focus on you bodily sensations, as you hear a story you are supposed to star in.

It's your birthday, and the whole day is a disaster, from one unpleasant surprise to the next, but at the end your friends through you a surprise party. And.. how did each incident made us feel, in our body.. specifically. The practice required very detailed attention on sensations.

Ants, soda powder and Laura Clery

Dear future historian,

We occupied ourselves with ants in the yard today, I made a line of bicarbonate of soda outside the door. My sister said that works for ants. It kind of did actually. It was impressive. In the beginning they seemed to be even more of them than before and there were even some with wings. But in about an hour only very few were left. So we'll see how this goes.

Solipsistic pasta

Dear future historian,

Not much today. Family time. Listening to podcasts while washing dishes and doing the laundry.

Oh, I also spent some time in my uni's philosophy forum. And.. they had a topic about immortality! (I love uni.) Exploring the possibility of getting bored at some point, if you don't die! And only yesterday I was writing to you about Sisyphus. 'Is it getting Solipsistic, or is it just me!' I was also thinking the other day of a kind of pasta that I liked in Greece and that I haven't found it here.. next super market visit.. I found them! 

London, Sisyphus.. and my legs hurt

Dear future historian,

My legs ache so bad..

I walked so much yesterday. And I totally forgot that I haven't walked much after the lock-down. I just assumed my walking skills were waiting for me (and the World) to be ready. So it was kind of a surprise when I woke up today and every step hurts even more than the last one.

'The rent of existence,' like to be alive you can't just 'buy your stats' and then just put them on the side, expecting them to wait for  you, whenever you feel like it (feel like running, waking for miles in a day.. living again among people, etc.)

It's like you need to keep paying rent, or a tax or something, constantly, or the 'stats' are reduced, maybe even taken away.

Poem: If all the MEs

If all the MEs that spend the night alone could meet.. we'd have the best night ever! 

It would be a hot-summer, full-moon, clear-sky night.

We'd talk about ideas, ask for advice, do different things to our hair, watch a movie..

We'd laugh and weep and sing..

If all the MEs ever met.. maybe the World would come to an end.

It would still be a great night though!

And then I'm thinking..

Maybe happiness isn't to have someone every night to spend with..

Maybe happiness is to be in such harmony with your selves.. that if you ever met your YOUs.. it would be the best night ever!

I love the Moon

Dear future historian,

I have to travel to London in 2 days. During a pandemic!

Like, what if the Doctor was coming with the Tardis, and she landed in London during the Black death, or something. 

It's like..

About Short Stories

Dear future historian,

I didn't always appreciated short stories. They left me an uncomfortable feeling, like hearing a song for the first time. I thought that they don't give me enough time to connect with the characters, emotionally, or feel that I have enough evidence to make a certain moral judgment about them.

It was only last year that I realised the ability that short stories have to teach us how to zoom and focus in the moment, in the 'Here and Now.'

Plus I feel lately that I just can't make a long term commitment to a story atm. You see, I always spend a lot of time thinking of the characters and the plot of any novel I read. But now I have to focus on other things, quite a lot of things.

Fighting the Dragon of Chaos

Dear future historian,

I still haven't managed consistency with your letters.. but believe me, I'm trying. I have a test next week and I'm studying. I'll tell you all about it next week. For now I want to focus on anxiety again.

I was watching Jordan Peterson's family update video, that he did some days ago with his daughter, and part of it was his description of severe anxiety attacks and akathisia..

https://youtu.be/qQyhn9DPE00

Dear future historian, day 2.

Start over and over again.. and again

Dear future historian,

Some days I feel empty, like all my energy has been used. Like fatigue is stronger than me. These days I've learned to start over, to begin again. 

About 10 years ago, I was living in Thessaloniki, Greece, up on hill, about 30 minutes walking distance from the centre. I frequently took long walks, with my baby girl in a slink. One day I met my mum, went out for a walk in the centre, then went to a play area for quite some time, then started walking up the hill, home. On the way I suddenly realised that it has been more than 6 hours since the last time I ate anything, and the baby hasn't stopped breastfeeding, and I feel like passing out. Half way home I felt like I couldn't make another step. That was as far as my limits can take me.

Inherited guilt

Dear future historian,

Sorry. I had two days of going out for post office, grocery shopping and stuff.. and I just didn't find any time to write to you. This lockdown made me realise how much energy I loose when I go out with a 'to do list' and how happy I am at home. (At least I hugged a Tree.)

I.. how can I tell you that?

Well, just some days before the pandemic was known and the lockdown was a thing I wished to stay home for 6 months. I just felt exhausted, and I could tell that I needed a break.

We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one

Dear future historian,

Today feels weird. Not sure why.

A mix of too much and nothingness, boredom and stress, overload and not enough stimulation.

It took me like forever to make an add on Facebook for my book. Then I spend some time contemplating on how unrelated you are, my dear future historian, with my book, and how confusing it might be for my Facebook page visitors to see my letters to you, when my 'buy now' button is a mindfulness book. And after that most of my 'free-time' was spend on 'kitchen trips' in search for snacks -that I ending up not eating, because I get anorexic when I'm stressed- and some ADHDing (as I use to call that, like going up and down for no specific reason.) In general, a lot of disappointment on my self and a lot of doubt on my life's and marketing's skills.

Dear future historian (26 June 2020)

Dear future historian,

Wow. Today I got the best review that I could possibly hope for my book!

And you know from whom?

Remember Dayna Martin? The unschooler writer, children's advocate, etc, that I follow for more than a decade (that I mentioned on the 23rd of June?) A real role model for me, for years now.

Yes! Actually, really, unbelievably.. from her! Defenatly a big even to write about in my diary.

May all the big events for me, you, and my contemporary readers be as positive as this one, my dear future historian.

The review:

Lotus

Hello dear future historian,

Just a quick thought today, to show you my new ring.

You know.. my childhood self hated my Lotus name.

I would get so upset if I knew that I would proudly wear that ring!

In Greece people can't even pronounce it (which makes even more ironic the fact that now people can't pronounce my last name, here in the UK. :-p And why did they write it with 'ou' on my Greek passport anyway? What does 'Lotous' suppose to mean?) 

Be kind to children to change the world

Dear future historian,

Lets see.. where to start here? I read, some days ago, a book 'The explosive child' (by Ross W Greene PhD).. and I feel so ready to explode (a 'must read' book.)

Anxiety (22 June 2020)

Dear future historian,

*

Have I told you how I panic over everything?

My day starts with a list, unrealistically long, and it ends with frustration at the un-checked tasks.

Why don't I readjust the length of the list? I thought you'd ask me that. My dear dear, naive, future historian.

I dont know if you live with AI house-robots, or in a post-apocalyptic scenario of the future, but a to-do list of people in 2020 is crazy.

Add uni and 2 kids and the expectations are beyond the 24 hours of the day.

Now.. add autism, OCD, ADHD and dyspraxia symptoms, and BAMM! You got yourself a recipe for anxiety. 

Καλημέρα Ήλιε

(Also available in English:

https://dearfuturehistorians.blogspot.com/2020/05/good-morning-sun.html?m=1)

June 21st

Dear future historian,

Today was the longest day of the year.

I went out and hugged a beautiful tree, Tree-meditated; and I stayed out till the sunset to Sun-meditate. 

Whatever

Dear future historian,

I wrote that many hours ago.. but I wasn't sure if I should share it. 

At the end I thought that.. what's the point of writing if I am not honest with who I am?

So.. here it is:

Trigger alert: suicide & mental health issues

Dear Future Historian,

I need to talk, even if it’s been 13 years.

At the cemetery. Everyone is dead here. Everyone but me. A cat suddenly appears from behind a grave. I keep walking. At some point, I reach John's grave.

‘Hi mate, I told you I'd come'.

I take off my shoes. Graves are holy ground. I place the sleeping bag on and sit down. Next, I take the bottle of wine that I had brought and open it.

‘Cheers John'. I drink a bit, then I get up, lift the sleeping bag, and pour some wine on his grave.

‘Cheers’.

Μύθος Κοσμογονείας

Η θεά Μητέρα.. κι ο Πατέρας θεός.. χτυπήθηκαν από τα βέλη του Έρωτα, που προϋπήρχε.

Αρχικά η χημεία τους εξέπληξε και τον ίδιο τον Έρωτα.

'DIY' Greek Short Film Script (February 4, 2005)

Also available in English

“ΦΤΙΑΞΤΟ ΜΟΝΟΣ ΣΟΥ”

Σενάριο μικρού μήκους της

Λείας Μιχαλοπούλου

(11 Σελίδες/Λεπτά.)

Thinking-ourselves-into-existence

-       - I am a double personality.

-       - I am not a double personality. We are just two people in one. Not something like a shampoo with a conditioner; more like peanut-butter and jam, in one sandwich.

-       - What are you talking about? You are confusing the readers.

-       - Whatever.

#standfortrees

Dear future historian,

My 11 year old daughter send me this today.

Red-eyes-evil characters in cartoons

Dear future historian,

Has people spotted yet in your time the fact that red-eyes-evil characters in cartoons promote skin colour racism?

I noticed that my 6-year-old is really convinced that all bad guys can be spotted by their eye colour.

I don't even know where to start with that!

That stereotype first of all tricks children into the idea that malevolence is spottable.

Good morning Sun

‘Good night Sun. Good night. Bring something good with you tomorrow, please, and I will try to write something beautiful, to offer you’, the girl said to the Sun. And then she was lost in the shadows, behind the hill. 

The Sun was surprised! It had been centuries since someone spoke to him. It was not that this girl had something special. Or that he used to deal with such kind of requests. It was just... It has been a while that no one had asked him anything at all, no one had promised him anything.

Thank you all so much for your support

My book yesterday got 1st on the 'Hot New Releases' Gaia Amazon list!

Thank you all so much for your support.

'Anything Worth Doing is Worth Doing Badly'

Dear future historian,

As you might know I published my first book on Amazon. In a way it was like what Jordan Peterson say: 'Anything Worth Doing is Worth Doing Badly’.

https://youtu.be/FJV7HeHT4q4

I had many layout and other issues because I didn't use a template in the beginning. Not that I didn't know I should. But... I forgot! The thing is I let these things stop me up until now. But as much as I have my differences with some of Peterson's opinions -mostly about child raising, and his refusal to see the reality of women's depression though out history- I can't but admit that his message has changed my life.

My Mindfulness book! 'Elementation. Hug a Tree'.

Elementation 

Hug a Tree 

The aim of this book is to equip you with ways of coping with the stresses of daily and modern life. The skill of coping under pressure enables you to live your life to your full potential and to be 'the writer of your own story', as well as 'the manifestor of your own dreams'. I have included a set of routines that I developed in the last twenty years. Combining the knowledge that I have gained in my quest for ways to naturally cope with my own stress, being that I am autistic and prone to anxiety. My hope is that it will enrich your life as much as it has mine.

Listed in this book, are some easy techniques and some ways of meditating on the four elements of Nature: Earth, Fire, Air, and Water. Moreover, I have included some additional practices that will help you in your daily life, if you make them a part of your daily routine.  

US Review: 

Μy sunflower lanyard

18/04/2020 Canterbury UK 07:38 pm

Dear Future Historian

Dear Future Historian

02/02/2020    02:02am    Canterbury   UK

Dear Future Historian:

First global palindrome day in 909 years!

Came home from work at 10:30pm and I’m sleepy since midnight, but I promised to myself I will be awake at 02:02. Not sure exactly what I had in mind; but, thanx to Netflix and wine, here I am. So… cheers, I guess.

May we watch series and drink wine in 03/03/3030.

My Collage Attempts (2007)

In Memory of John/Yiannis, who died from mental health issues, in 2007.

Read more @

https://dearfuturehistorians.blogspot.com/2020/06/trigger-alert-suicide-mental-health.html 

And Rodolphos Eleftheriadis, who draw the rainbow-painting with the girl for me (bottom-left,) and also gave me his rainbow-painting with the mountains and the ship (right-edge-abobe-keep-walking.)

Περισσότερα για τον Ροδόλφο Ελευθεριάδη @ https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/518965862930483827/9105535387680346074

ΕΡΩΤΙΚΆ ΦΊΛΤΡΑ ΚΑΙ ΣΕΞΟΥΑΛΙΚΉ ΜΑΓΕΊΑ (2006)

Η επιθυμία για ένωση, η μετάδοση ενέργειας (όπως εκείνη που οι αρχαίες φυλές πίστευαν ότι γίνεται με το φάγωμα μελλών του νεκρού εχθρού) το φιλί, τα δαγκώματα... Το ίδιο το σεξ είναι ένα είδος κανιβαλισμού!

ΕΜΜΗΝΌΡΡΟΙΑ (2006)

«Επειδή, η ζωή κάθε σάρκας είναι το αίμα της».

Λευιτικό 17:14α

Το αίμα είναι, για τους πρώτους πολιτισμούς, η ίδια η ουσία της ζωής.

Όμως το αίμα της εμμηνόρροιας είναι κάτι ιδιαίτερα μαγικό...

ΚΈΛΤΙΚΑ ΣΎΜΒΟΛΑ (2005)

Το όνομα Κέλτες δόθηκε από τον Ηρόδοτο και από άλλους Έλληνες συγγραφείς, στις φυλές που κατοικούσαν στη βορειοδυτική και κεντρική Ευρώπη.

ΤΟ ΤΡΊΤΟ ΜΆΤΙ (2005)

Το λυχνάρι του σώματος είναι το μάτι. Όταν, λοιπόν, το μάτι σου είναι καθαρό, και το σώμα σου ολόκληρο είναι φωτεινό. Όταν, όμως, είναι πονηρό, και το σώμα σου είναι σκοτεινό. Πρόσεχε, λοιπόν, μη τυχόν το φως, που είναι μέσα σου, είναι σκοτάδι.

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ΠΟΛΎΤΙΜΟΙ – ΗΜΙΠΟΛΎΤΙΜΟΙ ΛΊΘΟΙ (2005)

«Ο Κόσμος αντανακλάται με διαφορετικούς τρόπους, σε ένα πολύτιμο ή ημιπολύτιμο λίθο αντανακλά τον ίδιο του τον εαυτό».

Ζαρατούστρα

ΧΡΩΜΑΤΟΘΕΡΑΠΕΊΑ (2005)

Το Χρώμα είναι η γλώσσα του Φωτός...

Είναι άραγε τυχαίο που το χρώμα της χλωροφύλλης, του «αίματος» των φυτών, και του δικού μας είναι συμπληρωματικά;

ΚΛΑΣΙΚΈΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΊΕΣ ΦΑΝΤΑΣΜΆΤΩΝ (2006)

Ακόμα κι αν τα φαντάσματα δεν «υπάρχουν», θα περιπλανώνται για πάντα μέσα στις ιστορίες, στο βασίλειο των παραμυθιών. Μέσα στη φαντασία των παιδιών, των τρελών και των καλλιτεχνών. Μέσα στις αναμνήσεις φαντασίας των «σοβαρών» ενηλίκων.

ΓΙΑΤΊ ΟΙ ΆΝΘΡΩΠΟΙ ΓΊΝΟΝΤΑΙ ΦΑΝΤΆΣΜΑΤΑ; (2006)

«Σε χαιρετίζω Όσιρι, Κύριε του Φωτός, που διαμένεις στην κραταιά κατοικία σου, στα στήθη του απόλυτου σκότους.

Έρχομαι σε σένα, εγώ, η εξαγνισμένη ψυχή. Τα δύο μου χέρια σε αγκαλιάζουν.

Ανοίγω τους ουρανούς. Εκτελώ αυτό που στη Μέμφιδα διατάχθηκε. Γνωρίζω την καρδιά μου. Είμαι κύριος της καρδιάς μου, κύριος των χεριών μου και των ποδιών μου, με τη θέληση του εαυτού μου. Η ψυχή μου δεν είναι φυλακισμένη στο σώμα μου στις πύλες του Αμέντι.»

Αιγυπτιακή Βίβλος των Νεκρών

ΡΟΔΌΛΦΟΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΆΔΗΣ, Συνέντευξη, (2005)

Ροδόλφος Ελευθεριάδης

 Τέχνη & Υπερβατικός Διαλογισμός

«Η Ομορφιά και η Αλήθεια οδηγούν και τα δυο στον ίδιο στόχο, στο εσωτερικό μας Φως».

Το «Γαλάζιο Πουλί» του Μαίτερλινκ (2005)

Το «Γαλάζιο Πουλί» του Μαίτερλινκ είναι ένα ταξίδι για την αναζήτηση της ευτυχίας.

Ο συγγραφέας σ’ αυτό το έργο του κρύβει πολύ έντεχνα τον πεσιμισμό του, που στα προηγούμενα του έργα είναι απροκάλυπτος. Έτσι το πιο αισιόδοξο δημιούργημα του Μαίτερλινκ καταλήγει στο συμπέρασμα πως η ευτυχία είναι άπιαστη, ή τουλάχιστον εφήμερη. Δεν είναι παρά αναζήτηση μιας Χίμαιρας, που καταλήγει πάντα σ’ ένα όνειρο που σβήνει το πρωί, σαν το πουλί που χάνει το χρώμα του μόλις μπει στο κλουβί.

«ΥΠΆΡΧΕΙ ΚΆΤΙ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΚΆΝΩ ΕΓΏ;» («Λευκό αίμα»)

Σενάριο μικρού μήκους των

Ντανιέλα Δαμιανίδου

και

Λεία Λώτους Μιχαλοπούλου

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1E6rZhBqTk

ΤΟ ΚΟΡΙΤΣΆΚΙ ΜΕ ΤΑ ΣΠΊΡΤΑ (libretto, 2005)

Του Χανς Κρίστιαν Άντερσεν

Διασκευή

Λυδία Κώνστα/Λεία Μιχαλοπούλου

Θεσσαλονίκη

22-3-05

Two Book unfinished attempts and a Poem (1997 & 2004)

Poem:

Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό ήταν ένα κοριτσάκι που είχε χαθεί στον λαβύρινθο του χρόνου.

Είχε κρυφτεί εκεί πριν πολύ καιρό γιατί από μικρή έμαθε πόσο σκληρή μπορεί να γίνει η πραγματικότητα.

Ύβρις (2001)

Η ελευθερία. Το δικαίωμα στην αναζήτηση της Αλήθειας, η Γνώση.

Βλέπουμε ταινίες με εγκληματίες που προσπαθούν να αποδράσουν από φυλακές και έχουν καλό τέλος όταν τα καταφέρουν. Θαυμάζουμε φιλοσόφους που έζησαν για να βρουν απαντήσεις.

Ο Φόβος (2001)

Είδα ένα διαφημιστικό για μια εκπομπή με θέμα τον «τρόμο» και γιατί ταινίες τέτοιου είδους μας ελκύουν. Έτσι αποφάσισα πριν το δω να γράψω γι’ αυτό ώστε να δω κι εγώ ποια είναι η δική μου άποψη επί του θέματος.

Goths (2001)

 Η ανάγκη να νιώσει κανείς ζωντανός, να νιώσει κάτι!

Γνωρίζω όλο και περισσότερους ανθρώπους που για να «σιγουρευτούν ότι ζουν ακόμα» καταφεύγουν στα μαχαίρια, τους σπασμένους καθρέφτες, όλων των ειδών τα αιχμηρά αντικείμενα, χωρίς να θέλουν ή τουλάχιστον να προσπαθούν να αυτοκτονήσουν. Ένα παιχνίδι με τον πόνο και τον θάνατο ως ύστατη προσπάθεια να ζήσουν!

Τηλεόραση (2001)

Οι επικριτές της τηλεόρασης την κατηγορούν για την έλλειψη αντικειμενικότητας των ειδήσεων της, για το ότι διαμορφώνει αντιλήψεις σύμφωνα με τα συμφέροντα αυτόν που την ελέγχουν, για τα «κακής ποιότητας» προγράμματα της κτλ.

Keep walking.... (2001)

«...Πρέπει να πάω κάπου ή... δεν μπορώ να μείνω εδώ.»

«...Υπάρχει κάτι μέσα μας που μας κρατάει εκεί που βρισκόμαστε. Νομίζω ότι αυτό είναι το πιο τρομερό απ’ όλα.» (Πήτερ Ουσπένσκυ «Η παράξενη Ζωή του Ιβάν Οσοκίν»).

Υπάρχουμε; (2001)

            Όταν ο Μωυσής στην πρώτη του συνάντηση με τον Θεό τον ρώτησε το όνομά του, η απάντηση ήταν «Εγώ είμαι ο Ων». Η ερμηνεία αυτής της παράξενης διακήρυξης είναι ότι ο Θεός ήθελε να διαφοροποιήσει τον εαυτό του από τους άλλους, τους ψεύτικους θεούς.

Ινδία x 3 (2001)

ΔΙΑΣΧΙΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΗΝ ΙΝΔΙΑ

Όταν ταξιδεύεις κάπου για πολύ καιρό νιώθεις σιγά σιγά σαν το μέρος στο οποίο πρωτοπήγες να αρχίσει να χάνεται, σαν να υπάρχουν δυο διαστάσεις σε κάθε σημείο του πλανήτη, άλλη για τους κατοίκους και άλλη για τους επισκέπτες Γίνεσαι κι εσύ κομμάτι της ζωής τους κι αυτοί της δικής σου.