Denarius of salvation

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 09/21/2014

We talked about the previous day’s flooded streets after a six-hour downpour.  When he heard the early morning news of deluged manholes and waterlogged thoroughfares, he decided to forgo driving and to just stay home. He returned…

Taxi driver

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 09/07/2014

We had come from an appointment in the interior, which took up  most part of the evening.  Seeing that we had no ride, a friend offered to ferry us to where we could find public transportation without…

Standing on fishes

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 08/10/2014

Francois Boucher’s painting, “Saint Peter Attempting to Walk on Water,” comes across as an odd man out.  Boucher, a French rococo painter who lived in the first half of the eighteenth century, built his reputation as a…

The net

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 07/27/2014

Not too long ago, the wife and I spent a weekend at my sister and brother-in-law’s beach property on the western side of the island. We took a long, winding road that crossed the mountains, passing by…

Anyone there?

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 07/20/2014

Whenever I open the door of our little garden house, I see weeds in between the cement tiles that we had put in at the patio. We had filled up the space between tiles with gravel, but…

Bird and bread talk

06/29/2014

Here I sit in a restaurant at the airport. My flight is seven hours away. In the restaurant, I picked a corner where ensconced in a sofa I could stay undisturbed for seven hours. On the table…

Christ recrucified

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 05/25/2014

In 1953, Nikos Kazantzakis published a novel entitled, “The Greek Passion.” It is set in the 1920s, towards the end of the Greco-Turkish war. The village of Lycovrissi, which lies inside Turkey, holds a live Passion play…

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