“A critical, violent moment is our historical era, one world is crumbling, another has not yet been born. Our era is not a moment of balance, when kindness, compromise, peace, love would be fruitful virtues. We no longer fit into the old virtues and hopes, the old theories and actions” (Nikos Kazantzakis, Salvatores Dei, 1927).
The mental Kallos (~Beauty) is visible in the sensible world, through the physical eyes, Plato states in Phaedrus (Plato, Phaedrus, 250d6-7). It can be manifested and loved.
Spring came, Persephone ascended from Hades to earth again. Nature is blooming and the swallows are coming again. The sun is warmer and the hyacinths are fragrant in the alleys. Nature is celebrating and with it the Homeland and every Greek soul is celebrating the Anniversary of the Revolution of ’21.
A small village spread out on the edge of a small hill and the fields around it, they were the world of little Electra. At school her mind was “opened” and she committed to herself that she would always study to learn! The melodies of the church whispered to her that she would always make sure that her heart would be filled with this unspeakable serenity and love!