Day 18: Old Harbor

So I’m walking along the beach at the Old Harbor, listening to this incredibly nostalgic, wonderful album with traditional songs from the Greek community in Southern Italy (forever grateful to BBC Radio 3 for introducing me to it) and I’m thinking of all the people in my life who left their home in search of a better life. That aspirational (often desparate) quest is sacred and fundamental to humanity and we should always respect immigrants who left everything behind in order to build a better future for themselves and their families. The tension between the need and hope for a new dawn and the permanently painful sense of uprooting never goes away.

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