In Defense of Paradise

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Montana Writers in Defense of Greater Yellowstone of which he is a co-editor. His latest book, Vagabond Song: A frequent performer of poetry and spoken word, Beaudin has worked and recorded with a variety of jazz and rock musicians at venues across the country, as well as on several public and independent radio stations.

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Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The cerulean canopy of sky and the luminous energy it radiates have to do with an uninhabited rocky outcrop crouching low in the churning seas, a few kilometers away. The sacred island of Delos is as vital to Greek mythology as the oracle at Delphi and the Cycladic group of islands which includes Mykonos derives its very name from it -- the island's form a cyclos circle around Delos.

Historically and archaeologically Mykonos was and is entirely eclipsed by Delos whose focal point is the sacred lake where the nymph Leto gave birth to the twin gods Apollo and Artemis and which is still guarded by the world famous row of snarling marble lions.

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At one time, it was a place of sprawling market places, colonnaded walkways, theaters and shops where maze-like streets were dominated by porticoed villas whose vividly hued mosaics evoke the suddenly extinguished glory of Pompeii. Whereas that city was obliterated in hours, Delos' decline was more gradual but no less dramatic.

No one was permitted to die on the island as not to sully the pristine light which characterized Apollo. Death was dark anathema to the Apollonian culture and as the risk of death in childbirth was high, births were not permitted there either. So Delos had no native citizens and thus itself died out. Deaths and births were exiled to the neighboring island of Rhenia.

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Throughout a very contrary history, Mykonos was an inhospitable exile for disgraced Roman aristocracy and was occupied by the Venetians, then the Turks, was burned in World War II and was always poor. Yet Mykonos survives, even in this time of national economic crisis.


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The island celebrates itself with reckless enthusiasm, around the clock. Visitors are usually in one of two states: Revelries cease around 8 a. Stores in town operate with similar alacrity and are open in summertime until 1 a.

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The range of available wares is impressive. Cuban cigars are squeezed between newspapers and chewing gum in the pavement kiosks and supermarkets sell gourmet products from premium UK food stores. Instead of road rage there is road relaxation. A variety of motley vehicles are deployed on the streets -- quad bikes mostly but also bicycles, tractors, a few antique cars including my own, even a donkey on the quieted tracks.

Tricycles sometimes carry goats, pigs and hay and snuggle next to preposterous Hummers and Range Rovers on the way to town. Admittedly with its fame came over-development, high prices and an urban bustle reminiscent of a small city. Yet you can get away -- jogging along gritty dirt tracks where you can smell fresh thyme bushes, sliding down rocks to private coves where you can let the sun drench your skin and swim in a sea which is numbing or invigorating depending on your interpretation of cold.

There really is a pelican guarding the port and the original Peter was brought to Mykonos from Germany in He is now joined by Georgia and they are fed by the local fishermen who have a white marble stand where they sell their catch. The port looks like it did in photographs from the sixties and is always lively even in December when it can be dusted with snow.

In town, sophisticated stores are interspersed by solemn churches whose interiors emit a rosy glow of candles and silence in the din.


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The town houses sit with their doors open, the inhabitants sitting quietly at their table the women usually in black, unfazed by the craziness on their doorstep. I still get a nod or a hug from the people I have known over the 43 years I've been visiting the island and I value that.

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Eugenia's day and on Christmas Day which follows it, wherever I am in the world, I will get phone calls from the people I co-operate with there. My special favorite is Mr.

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Aris from OTE phone company and that's how he announces himself. The best way to see Mykonos is at sunset with its characteristic wind mills jutting out darkly against the crimson sky and it's also best to see it in humorous perspective One day a long traffic jam occurred at the main intersection. Locals were cursing and tourists fretting angrily as the blocked road led to the port one way and to the airport the other.