Some of my photos and paintings :)

Below I have some of my photos with my daughters and, of course, paintings of mine.

Me, in the middle, and my daughters with some of my small paintings.

Me and my daughters again - a happy moment.

Me and some of my paintings, most of them made the last month before the exhibition.

Exhibition photos

Some photos of the exhibition opening below.

The President of the Union with guests.

An overview of the central area.

Wine served to guests at the main entrance.

Me and my friend Ilona with some of her paintings.

Talking with friends and guests about art.

Ilona's jewelry - very nice work.

Art Exhibition of the Artistic Union of Pieria, Greece

Time to wake up!  So, after long years of inactivity, the Artistic Union of Pieria gathered again ready to make an active come back to the artistic world.
We gathered with a nice feeling in heart to meet people we missed for years and new blood with talent.  And we opened the Art Exhibition of the Artistic Union at the Urban School of Katerini, the capital of Pieria from 28th of May till 20th of June.

Can I overdo it a bit?

That matrix thing that many people talk about, especially after the well known movie I, II, III etc., is not a new story. And maybe some times we mention it as a complicated theory that, of course, can't have a real impact in our real everyday life, at least as we perceive it, but some of us keep also in a place behind our brain a small thought, an "if what" that makes our real everyday life not so real.
All these secret sects in all known eras knew something more about the theory of matrix and how much of a theory may be. Not, of course, a matrix like Neo's with machines that run a computer program. But still a matrix that works with our mind, a program that covers our consciousness and drops a veil that hides the reality.
How can we know that we are in a matrix and that there is an "other" reality? We can't really "know". That is the power of the veil. But we can surely "feel" it. We feel there is something different or weird or more than what we see or perceive. And we don't feel it all the time. Just some times that we are more sensitive and start questioning. And not all of us. Isn't it strange?
Isn't it also weird that science, the new kind of it that is quantum physics, which I think is still in fashion, yes, describes the matrix in details. Discovers the true abstract reality and the illusionary world we take in with our five senses and wonders "what the heck happens here?"
Of course, there are reasons we are here and reasons that we are limited in the information we perceive in our everyday life. Not all people are ready for the truth. Not all want to jump to a boundless and unlimited beyond time and space somewhere. We have to earn this and the road to prove ourselves is long and hard. Or instant and easy. Opinions differ. And when easy, maybe too easy for some to accept it and this maybe is much harder than the long and logically hard road that anyone would have the time to accept.
And always a lot of people won't want it. They don't want the red pill. Can we blame them? New souls need the experience of this world, to walk the peel, time to leisure and find a snug berth. Why not? It's their right and always will be.
So, red or blue? Blue or red? Each is right for someone and wrong for someone else. It's such a personal question! Can you answer?

The World is Vegan (or should be!)

Do you see me?
I won't harm you.
Why should you?
We can live together in a bloodless world!

Buddhist Prayer

I am not a buddhist and this is not a usual buddhist prayer. It's a prayer for all animals that suffer an unreasonable and horrible pain due to human ruthlessness.

Buddhist Prayer for Animal Liberation

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It's important for our souls to become sensitive in this pain. The other creatures who co-exist on this planet with us suffer physically and emotionally because of us. And, whether we like it or not, whether we know it or not, we are part of this suffering, it perforates our hearts. You think you are the pain free exception? Think again. You just don't realize it yet. And, maybe, when you do, it will be too late for you.

Free food life? Nothing impossible!

Have you heard about the yogi that doesn't eat or drink at all? And he does so for about 70 years? Here in Greece all the news were talking about him. And because of the economic crisis that hit our door, some dream of learning the secret of the yogi...
I had my doubts, I must confess. I may do a diet that is not the common one, I may have in mind that I want to go raw some time - the sooner the better - and I may have heard about the ideal food that is the pure light of the sun but hearing it in this reality seemed impossible.
Then a friend of mine came from India. The timing was just weird - since I don't have a lot of friends from India. Of course, I discussed it with him and his wife and to my sincere surprise I learned that our new found yogi is nothing strange or mysterious for his country.
"Many yogis do that. A lot of people don't eat or drink and most of them do so from their childhood. Yeah, nothing special really."
"But how? I mean, how how? How do they do this? If people can live without eating why kids die from hunger in Africa?"
"It has to do with yoga and practice and meditation and the simple life these yogis live. It's not easy but not impossible too."
This was a bit disappointing for the greek people who were looking for the pill the yogi takes for his free food life. I am afraid that such a diet can't easily combine with our everyday neurotic nervous breakdown stressed and full of anger and misery life. It needs a clear mind and a happy and open heart.
What did the yogi said? He can meditate for many days, even months? I suppose the mind that can do this, can do many more other things too. It's mind over matter.
What has arrived in my mind right now? Ha. Yes. That story about Apollonio the Tyaneas, that ancient saint who was imprisoned for his strange ways and at the court, tied with heavy chains, he said to his persecutors: "You can do whatever you want with my body but you can do nothing to my soul." And then he thought about it again and said: "Now that I think better of it, you can do nothing to my body either," and he snapped his fingers and banished from the court. There were rumors after this that he was seen in different places far away from there. He just remembered he could do the impossible. Because for the people who break the program of this matrix we live in, nothing really is impossible...

Vegan food

Many people ask me when the conversation reaches food: "what do you eat?" It's so strange and difficult for some to imagine a diet without meat and/or animal products and so full their diet with meat, meat, meat, that they find it hard to think of something beyond meat. They fail also to understand how restricted a meat diet is. "Everything except meat and dairy", I answer.
"Everything? What else exists?", they usually wonder. Mmm...
A lot of things! Do you want some taste? Look here: Vegan Food Pyramid, hehe.
Do you want recipes? Oh my! The whole web is filled with vegan recipes. Try this: Delicious Vegan Recipes and this: Vegan Chef's Suggestions and even this: Vegan Choices. You want something simple? Check this: Simple Vegan Recipes.
It's so simple really. And so wide the range of available probabilities and delicious food choices and varieties that it is strange that people usually have a small problem to see the whole picture. And the grains and sprouts, oh my! Mmm, so yummy that maybe we, vegans, should keep our diet selfishly for ourselves. Or maybe let you kindly just try, even only for health reasons, to reach a revolutionary way to open the mind and extend the programmed thought mode that the misled majority uses so far. Taste for yourself. :)

Weird astro facts

Did you know that Lucy, a star in the constellation of Centaurus, is a huge diamond of 10 billion trillion trillion carats? Wow!!! Or that Pluto's moon Charon is considered to be a double dwarf, which means two planets orbiting each other? Or that Jupiter is so big that its mass is more than twice the mass of the rest of our Solar System's planets combined and that 1.000 Earths would fit inside Jupiter while the Sun could hold about 1.000 Jupiters? Oh my!
These and many more facts, yes facts, can be found inhttp://www.sciensational.com/astronomy.html. 
You want more scientific uni-weirdness? Checkhttp://space.about.com/od/humor/a/AstronomyFacts.htm. 
Visit also http://www.universetoday.com/category/astronomy/ - it is interesting too!
Ok, these are not that weird - the most weird is that we are here, alive, in the middle of an unknown and totally wonderful cosmos full of black holes, dark matter and uncounted other fascinating phenomenons.

Micro and Macro wonders

One of the things that truly amazed me even from childhood was everything weird and strange and whacky that had to do with the two worlds that exist in an untouchable way above and below us. Or, better, around us, but can't touch us and they can't touch each other too.
It is so wondrous that we usually fail to realize it, especially in our everyday life. We have to be in a consciously aware state, very well grounded and waken to this reality with our mind expanded to reach this information: we are just in between two fantastic groups of worlds, worlds inside worlds, live realities detached from our own but we live in both of them too, part of them and so far away at the same time.
The microscopic world of the very small and the macrocosmic world of the very huge. The acari and the atom and the vastness of galaxies. Both keep going over to the even smaller than we can ever imagine and/or discover and to the even vaster than our sight would ever reach.
Unaware, we don't usually realize the miracle. The far more that life is. The wonders that wait and happen every single moment that we get bored, we feel miserable, we see things black and white instead of the multicolored unlimited wonderful truth of existence.
Do we really have the luxury and the right to keep ourselves all the time into our gray boxes?