Summer Days

Another Summer is saying Goodby. Migratory birds are flying away and so are the emigrant Hellenism. My friends the magic of exixtence began for you in the  beautiful islands Kefalonia and Ithaki. Poverty and earthquakes took you farway to continents unkown. Good hospitable Countries that gave you a lot.  But you gave them much more. You gave them your golden youth, countless years of honest hard labor. Where Greeks lived Banks opened. Therefor you have contribute to their economy and growth. Above all you gave them your children the magnificent Ellinopoula!!!Among them great doctors, researchers, nuclear scientists, politicians, artist, successful business men and so on. Unavoidably between you and your New Country, an adoption took place. But all adoptive children search years and years driven by the need to find their biological mother. I think the same need brings you back again and again to the place of your birth. 
Back to the foul play and carefree of childhood, back to the dreams of adolescence and your very first Love, back to the graves of beloved parents and grandparents. 
A man my friends can indeed love a second Country but she will be for ever second.
The genuine, true Country like our mother, is one and only. The place of our birth. 
So, may the Good Lord give you longevity, keep you healthy in body and mind so you can keep coming back for many-many years to your mother land. Having you here every summer gives me great joy.