Words of Evangelia Senior
9/21/19

Today Evangelia and I sit in the shade of the olive trees sipping iced coffees. “Next year we go to Karditsa together,” she says. “Snap, snap, you can make many photographs.” A nice idea as her entire extended family, probably over 100 people, live there in a Roma settlement. We speak of that area, a great plain where fields full of cotton in full bloom are being harvested right now. Each bush,just three feet high, yields 10-15 round white balls the size of a small scoop of ice cream. “When I was small, me and all my family worked in the cotton fields near Trikala all day long.” Vamvaki is the Greek word for cotton.