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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
missing the aegean
Since backpacking across Europe this summer, I periodically find myself craving the isolated and anarchic places in the Balkans I was overjoyed to experience. I constantly find myself wishing I could smoke cigarettes indoors. I daydream about the Aegean water and the Greek food and the Turkish music and the Cyrillic alphabet and the people. I'm already planning new journeys in my mind, but I have no idea when I will have the liberty of taking them.
My nostalgia also makes me wonder if being a fragmented, globalized person is a nationality or an allegiance in and of itself. Can one convert to gypsy-ism? Knowing the little I do about Roma from playing some of their music, I'm pretty sure that's impossible, and somewhat naive.
So why don't I just share some photographs instead?
This was taken in the village of Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria at a national folk music and dance festival they host once every 5 years. I'm the dancer in the orange-y red dress towards the right.
A disorganized album with a few of my photos from the Balkans can be found here:
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