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To those who think that Greece does not matter today, let me say that they could not make a bigger mistake. Today, like old Greece, is of the utmost importance for anyone looking to find himself.

Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American author

The Greeks You Should Know 500+ individuals and organizations from around the world who keep Hellenism alive
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The Greeks You Should Know 500+ individuals and organizations from around the world who keep Hellenism alive
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Evangelia Aretoglidou-Folia
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Born in Kavala, since her childhood she has grown on its outskirts and until now lives in a natural environment, full of trees, birds, flowers.

She is married, has three children and three grandchildren.

From a young age she enjoyed in her free time reading literary books while in her adolescence she started writing her first poems.

Growing up, he became involved as an amateur in the field of art, and specifically in theater, song and painting. She wrote her first fairy tales after she got married and became a mother, when she ran out of every fairy tale or story and wanted to tell something new to her own children.

In the meantime, her third child came into her life and she devoted herself to raising her children, since her husband was away from home for many hours for work. At the same time, he decided to work from home to contribute to the family income, undertaking artistic works. When her children grew up and her grandchildren came to life, she had more time at her disposal and was systematically engaged in writing fairy tales and lyrics.

A year ago she decided to share her work with other parents, teachers and young children, in order to contribute in her own way to the field of children's fairy tales.

In her fairy tales, the heroes are creatures of nature, with human characteristics and express aspects of human character, in order to offer children stimuli and convey information and messages that are imprinted in their minds. Every fairy tale has a happy ending, full of optimism as it considers that it is a necessary and valuable resource in modern times for children who are now growing up.

Her poems capture representations of nature and everyday life and the emotions they evoke in her. Although the performances are repeated, sometimes the first role is played by the clouds, the rain, the snow, sometimes the wild flowers, the trees, the birds and sometimes again the small animals that live near her.

At the moment, two of her free e-books are being released, "The Velvet Pillow" and "The Owl's Feather", while her first book "Mrs. Flu and Her Children" by I-Write Publications has just been released.

My Articles

June 

June 

Let's welcome the month of June, which is the first month of this summer! This month has many names, mainly in the rural areas of Greece, related to June. It is called "the reaper" because farmers reap their fields as they...

 Lenio's cooking.

 Lenio's cooking.

Nikitas, a young man about two meters tall, handsome, with green eyes and black hair, was the pride of his mother. "Douglas" was what his friends called him. Only Nikitas was taller and more handsome than Kirk Douglas of his golden age...

Out of love...

Out of love...

The sky was heavy and gloomy, still in the whirlwind of the merciless wind, a small bird fell from the warm nest that was located in the bushy olive tree of a busy street. Dazed and confused, it suddenly collapsed on the edge of the sidewalk. Without wings...

The Lost King (Allegory)

The Lost King (Allegory)

About Alzheimer's disease A venerable and wise old woman many years ago said to me: "My child, let us not lose the King" and she pointed to the point of the mind with her index finger.. Once upon a time, there lived a great King in a splendid palace that resembled his...

February

February

February comes from the "veins" the underground waters that gush in its own time from the many rains. Originally February was the twelfth and last month of the Roman calendar. January and February did not exist in the past. The first...

In the microport

In the microport

It's lonely mother, tonight the sky may be late for me to come back.. don't worry next to the sea in your arms I'll walk until late when it's getting quieter.. I calm down, in the evenings at the sea its reflective smooth shiny mantle I forget my worries.. The light of her...

Lina's Christmas

Lina's Christmas

Lina, a sensitive girl, every time Christmas came as the schools closed for the holiday break, she was flooded with the most beautiful feelings! She loved the various ornaments that people decorated their trees with so much that...

Child..

Child..

Don't wake me up.. let me "sleep" let me dream like a child. Don't wake me up, do you hear me? I don't want to face the Dawn scared.. I don't want to be "Big". I grew up, and yet I ask for the "little" child in me. Don't wake me up anymore, I'm tired of the parties, leave it to you.. .

You are right my child...

You are right my child...

Turn on the light on the veranda my child!_But we are about to sleep mom!_Turn it on, I feel the day getting longer with the light! ___Why did it get dark - again? How quickly it gets dark! the grandmother whispers. I should take my pills for the night..._I have to mom, the daughter answers her...

Flies

Flies

Did the sky dry up tonight when you ask for some? Stretch out your hands cleanly without anger and don't think that infinity is a fraud Look at the eagles how freely they fly above the clouds, don't wonder at the cares of people that weigh you down...

Initiatives

Initiatives

Ever since I was little, I have loved autumn rain. Either I'm on the street with an umbrella and hear the beats of the raindrops or I'm at home observing it from my window glass. I could see the puddles filled with water...

Alone

Alone

Alone in her own loom, life finds her weaving words in moons and suns, alone in the nights counting the stars and pains not counting a thousand. She fights the uphill climb of life without a murmur coming out of her lips alone, even if there are many around her...

Don't change it grandma 

Don't change it grandma 

 My grandson, it is true that he has a weakness for me. Not that the other grandchildren don't love grandma, but he finds his own way of expressing his feelings and surprises me every now and then. After thinking many times and talking with him, I honestly stay...

Grandma's seeds

Grandma's seeds

 The grandmother of Pontus, my grandmother, was a woman with fists and courage throughout her life. Coming with a thousand and two hardships from a village of Orddus that was on the shores of the Black Sea, she ended up in a village in Northern Greece without knowing the...

The golden cannula

The golden cannula

But I'm not ashamed that I worked from a young age to lighten the burden of my parents I didn't grow up big and tall to win the prizes of the whole world I didn't become an orator, a philosopher or a judge or a lawyer to buy in courtrooms I didn't become a doctor,...

Only half way…

Only half way…

In the middle of the street. An endless road for an elderly grandmother as she trudged her way to the supermarket. One step, five suspensions and let's start all over again. The market in her neighborhood was relatively close, but it seemed far,...

In the inn of the night

In the inn of the night

 Darkness everywhere.. Desert in the great mountains of Pindus and the road uphill with sharp bends that take your breath away.. The ever-growing shadows of the trees as if they want to spread fear and panic on this unknown road makes the journey us...

The smell of mint

The smell of mint

And spring is coming! And I walk through the corridors of the garden. I see from afar the vine that has started to bloom but.. I stop at the planted mint. I don't go forward, there I lean my head, in the musk-scented leaves to caress the new sprouts that rise...

The schooner creaks…

The schooner creaks…

The patient to the doctor. Chronic problem with her health. Doctor and patient have known each other for over 40 years. The doctor welcomes Mrs. Efpraxia and asks her:_What's going on?_What's going to happen, doctor.. the known.. I didn't smoke cigarettes, you know, I didn't drink drinks, coffee, but the...

Spring bird

Spring bird

Come on, you bird that soars the big ones, I'll open the window for you, come into the hall! _I'm coming as you want me, madam, but tell me where I'll stay? you have neither branches nor a nest in it for me to lean on.. _I'm giving you seeds and bread, water to quench your thirst, I'll make you...

Flag!

Flag!

The competition is big in the sixth grade of the Dim. school that my little granddaughter is finishing this year! For quite some time now, Asi has always been consistent in her school lessons. It is not only the respect for the teachers of her school and her classes,...

Friendship

Friendship

Difficult subject... in this day and age, people are lucky to have true friends in their lives. The term friendship unfortunately has to do with many different concepts. There are friendships that last a lifetime and also friendships that last...

Subtraction…

Subtraction…

And the time comes when you love abstraction.. You remove the many words.. You remove the imaginative clothes.. The tiring trips.. You are not moved by crowded gatherings. And you stick to the little things.. the simple things.. Those that rest the mind and body. You finally recognize that life...

The father's house

The father's house

So I made the decision to unlock my memories for a while, from the chest of my heart, mind and emotions. It's been a while since I visited my father's house. The one I was born and raised in years ago.. Slowly _slowly I'm going down the broads...

Family

Family

The institution of the family, where all its members used to live happily enjoying a healthy and moral environment, is today being deconstructed. The traditional type of family is being shaken, which creates great concern for those who belong to older...

Desires

Desires

I have a desire To build a ladder To climb on the roof of my house above and turn my gaze down.. To see.. How God looks at me. To see how he looks at me at night when I travel with dreams, how he looks at me during the day as I open the windows. How am I talking about how...

Our wishes!

Our wishes!

And this year we all waited with our eyes fixed on the hands of the clocks, the last few minutes to welcome the promising first year. At the threshold of the last moments, the previous year handed over the keys to the new hoping that the new...

My Fairy

My Fairy

Are there fairies today? Do they only live in fairy tales? No, they don't live only in fairy tales, they live among us and even not in the water! They step on the Earth bathed by the clear water of the sky and shine as the sun illuminates them to spread their shine on...

Christmas

Christmas

And this year we are waiting with longing for the most beautiful celebration of Christianity, to celebrate the coming of Christ to our Earth. Myriads of colorful lights these days with the most beautiful decorations in the shop windows, the big avenues, the...

Happy people

Happy people

Every person uses different ways in their daily life to become happy. He never stops looking for ways to improve himself first without worrying about what others think of him. He is always friendly and...

We hear:

We hear:

"Don't sit on the couch anymore! Get up! Get out! Shout! Resist, don't be apathetic to what's coming! Don't stand idly by what others are preparing for you." This is what we have been hearing lately as an exhortation, as many consider guilty those who either...

Freedom

Freedom

We are all entitled to the priceless good of human freedom. Freedom is the power and right to act, speak or think as you wish. Many times it has a different meaning for each of us, but one thing remains the same.. Our ability to...

Freedom

Freedom

 We are all entitled to the priceless good of human freedom. Freedom is the power and right to act, speak or think as you wish. Many times, it has a different meaning for each of us, but one thing remains the same. Our ability to...

Trapped

Trapped

There are some people who live "trapped" but God gave them ways out, to travel with their writing. To escape from their everyday life.. There are some people who endure because of circumstances and cannot change them.. No because they don't...

About bullying

About bullying

57 years ago... The primary school classroom in complete silence. All focused on the teacher. Not a trace of noise is heard.. Grammar lesson. A very important lesson, for our Greek language and the preparation of a girl, minimal. Her notebook...

Traveling by boat

Traveling by boat

Traveling by boat without knowing the captain and having my mind only on the destination, I long to see the small harbors of the islands of my country and the few ships sailing alongside them. I long for those little churches with the blue domes that are bathed by...

The tree

The tree

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful and large tree, which had many many branches, with beautiful leaves with delicious fruits and embraced the whole earth. He invited many different birds to sit on his branches, to feed, to cool off and depending on the voice they had, to...

August

August

I count the days August you come every year because your days are good and you take every pain. Many are your virtues, many of your poets wrote about many of your beauties. The sun is bright and the nights are bright and...

The dragon who loved fires

The dragon who loved fires

Once upon a time there lived a dragon, not terrible, but good-natured. Difficult and unusual for dragons, but this particular one was not scary, it lived quietly in its lairs without causing terror and panic, like the other dragons. He had one wish, he loved flames very much,...

Betrayal

Betrayal

Hours_hours I feel that this land, the soil I walked on, the breaths I took in my own country do not belong to me.. And while we hear again that it will be shared for the sake of some, I grieve and wonder.. Where are the men of this country of the blessed? Where is...

July

July

Yes, July has arrived, it's been a while since we've seen him with the hot days, let's cool off? In the cool seas on beautiful beaches far from the cities the hot ones that burn like braziers. And in the waters all day we go, young and old, we do...

The childish complaint 

The childish complaint 

At home, when they yell at me, they call me nervous, crooked wood, they call me you're mean. When there is a disturbance, they deal with me from the beginning and push me away and talk without knowing what they are asking for. Why on earth do I have to suffer so much? why...

Canvass

Canvass

Again new promises... Again new will..... Again for new fish, set bow. In deep, murky, uncharted waters. Wherever it takes you. Water everywhere. And all in the mud. Many times the lumps are visible and cause disgust. And the slimy predators, in the play...

Wave

Wave

Wave that concealed your passion. You show your white mane, when the winds chase you furiously. You run fast. You are looking for the beach. You want to dance with her She follows your sound which upsets her. You dance with her and she wraps herself in the asymmetrical white...

Christmas

Christmas

Let me be a little angel singing in the supremely calm night, Saint where You were born The straw so little I can warm You or the baby in the manger we are drenched in myrrh. The ray from your star may lead the magicians to Smyrna gold and frankincense I may bestow upon you. Christ...

Child memories of my village

Child memories of my village

From the top floor of my grandfather's house, every morning I would go out onto the small wooden balcony. There I would take in the most beautiful images, which unconsciously imprinted themselves on my being. Just like that, without seeking it. I wanted to gaze at the golden yellow fields in the vast plain....

My nights

My nights

But why are you staying so late? Why do not you sleep .. What are you doing .. What can I say to the neighbor who lives downstairs in the last houses. That then when everyone around me is quiet I read, I meditate I pray? He will look at me strangely again. Happy birthday with this loneliness of the night ...

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