Stories of a Neighborhood

This morning as I was walking Nola we saw an enormous man, working in back of his house. He looked like the movie version of a carnival strongman—shaved head, enormous mustache. He was wrestling with a huge contraption, larger even than he, screwing lengths of pipe as legs into its bottom. “Is that a sink?”, I asked. I’m not shy or stand-offish. “I roast a lamb in this”, he replied in a strong accent which might have been Greek but sounded more Assyrian or Chaldean to me.

Today is Orthodox Easter. To all of my Orthodox friends, Christos aneste! Alethos aneste.

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