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by Maria CoveouAthina — Today, there was a Christmas tree waiting, with blinking lights and everything. A surreal note amidst the grimness, but it helps, if you ask me. I took the bed next to the door so that I could look at it during my chemo. I observe the faces of the relatives - especially the sons and daughters - when they stand on the doorway looking at their loved ones receiving their treatment. They seem so worr...
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Chemo
by Maria CoveouAthens — When it was time for Taxol to come in (that’s the drug that will be making all my hair fall off, and the first of the hardcore chemicals), I put on music. I chose my Pan Am compilation, and boy did it...
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Heart
by Maria CoveouAthina — Today, one month and three weeks after my surgery, I choose to write again because today I can write again. The surgery went very well, but my recovery took forever. Today is the first day I am feelin...
Hospitals, music
MRI
by Maria CoveouAthina — Don’t know who invented the MRI scanner and who came up with this amalgam of sounds produced by the machine, but they sure had lots of imagination. When I entered the MRI room I was met by a sound th...
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At The Acropoliiis
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Heart
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MRI
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The Fall
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Divine Intervention
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Killing yourself in Hollywood
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Hospitals, music
Chemo
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#100HappyDays, Lindy Hop, Happiness
It's a wrap with a swing!
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film
Private Screening
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Dance, Lindy Hop
Don't forget to smile!
by Maria Coveou in Cholargos -
Tributes
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
by Maria Coveou in Cholargos -
music, #100HappyDays, Opera
I hear music...
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Architecture
EXT. BATHROOM - DAY
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Dance, Lindy Hop, #100HappyDays
So the challenge begins...
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Food, Friends, #100HappyDays
Could we have your potatoes?
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Happiness, #100HappyDays
Challenge accepted!
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nature
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
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music, Prose
When I met Rock 'n' Roll
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Traditions
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restaurant
"Say we are Unagi!"
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Architecture, Film Set
abandoned vitraux
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Café
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Prose, Coffee
I enter the cafe, a small arty-looking place with cork walls on Exarchia Square that I’d passed a few weeks earlier.
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Waiting Rooms
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farewell, gardens
Farewell
in Cholargos, Greece -
Vintage, Eyeglasses
Mimis – ‘The Source of Eyeglasses’
in Athina, Greece -
Architecture
Acropolis
in Athina, Greece -
Expensive hobby
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Making Athens look small with a long lens
in Athina, Greece -
street Markets
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Books, Hospitals
Alternative Prayer Book
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Athens, Graffiti
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Heart
in Athina, Greece -
Hospitals
Neighbor
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Hospitals, music
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in Athina, Greece -
psychology
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in Cholargos, Greece -
Hospitals
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The Fall
in Cholargos, Greece -
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in Athens, Greece -
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in Athens, Greece -
film
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in Chalandri, Greece -
Dance, Lindy Hop
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Tributes
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
in Cholargos, Greece -
City views
Limestone chickenheads
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music
Vintage routines
in Cholargos, Greece -
music, #100HappyDays, Opera
I hear music...
in Cholargos, Greece -
Food, Friends, #100HappyDays
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Architecture
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in Ampelokipoi, Greece -
Dance, Lindy Hop, #100HappyDays
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Challenge accepted!
in Cholargos, Greece -
nature
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
in Cholargos, Greece -
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Lifting.
in Athens, Greece -
summer
Summer in the city
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landscapes, nature
I could stay here forever.
in Thira, Greece -
High. Higher. And Even Higher.
in Athens, Greece -
music, Prose
When I met Rock 'n' Roll
in Cholargos, Greece -
Ballet
The Wings
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What.
in Athens, Greece -
The Sea
My Breakfast
in Amarynthos, Greece -
Bridges, Prose
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in Xirovrisi, Greece -
Traditions
Clean Monday
in Neo Psychiko, Greece -
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Architecture
Decaying beauties
in Athens, Greece -
greece
in Zoniana, Greece -
Oh my!
in Cholargos, Greece -
restaurant
"Say we are Unagi!"
in Athens, Greece -
Vintage
Greek for 'Styrofoam' pronounced 'Felizol' - love the font
in Athens, Greece -
Architecture
'The Blue Apartment Block'
in Athens, Greece -
Brunch
New York Brunch
in Athens, Greece -
Christmas
Christmas is served
in Cholargos, Greece -
Café, Bistrot
Kitchen Stories
in Athens, Greece -
Architecture, Film Set
abandoned vitraux
in Athens, Greece -
Café
coffee and prayer
in Athens, Greece -
Dark Room
in Penteli, Greece -
Forum.
in Athens, Greece -
Prose, Coffee
I enter the cafe, a small arty-looking place with cork walls on Exarchia Square that I’d passed a few weeks earlier.
in Athens, Greece -
Ferry delayed - in that limbo that only intrepid adventurers experience! Going from 'crazy' Mykonos to Syros - what next?
in Ornos, Greece -
Very old things.
in Chiliomoudou, Greece -
Exploring the gorge in Crete.
in Rethymno, Greece -
Sunset gorge.
in Chania, Greece -
Architecture, history, Travel
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