Greece Is the Word
VOL 27
17 AUGUST 2021
(Dogs’ Voice’s pop-up animal shelter is providing temporary safe shelter and sustenance to 500+ dogs displaced by the fires—including the dog pictured here—until the dogs can be reunited with their humans or adopted by a new family. More organizations doing critical disaster-relief work in Greece are linked below, in case you feel called to donate to one or more of them.)
Photo Credit: Louiza Vradi
This edition is dedicated with love and gratitude to Father Thomas J. Paris. May his memory be eternal.
1.
PRAYERS
The fires in Greece have been devastating. Sheer tragedy.
2.
GREEK MYTHOLOGY FOR $200, UM, MAYIM?
How many of these Greek mythology questions can you answer correctly?
3.
WHO NEEDS ORANGETHEORY
When you can train like Ancient Greek Olympians instead.
4.
GOLLYWOOD
Watch out, Hollywood and Bollywood. It’s all about Gollywood now. Weeks ago we shared with our patrons on Patreon that Knives Out 2 had begun production in Greece and Beckett (which was filmed in Greece) would begin streaming on Netflix August 13th. Next up in Gollywood: Crimes of the Future.
5.
ANYBODY WANT A FRUIT BASKET?
It hasn’t been touched since ... 331 BC.
6.
I SEE YOUR TRUE COLORS SHINING THROUGH
“Here's what Greek and Roman statues really looked like—their true colors, or as close as anyone's gotten until now, using all the science and technology out there.”
7.
WHAT WOULD A GREEK SUMMER LOOK LIKE IN WATERCOLOR?
8.
ALL BETS ARE OFF
Not sure if it's good or bad or even matters that Greeks make the top and bottom of this list.
9.
RUMORS OF AGI (ANCIENT GREEK INFLUENCE)
In a Lizzo video featuring Cardi B.
10.
BRAVO SAS
This edition’s Bravo Sou Award goes out to the countries helping Greece during this catastrophic time.
Here are three nonprofit organizations doing critical rescue and relief work in Greece (Know of others? Tell us, so we can share them, as well):
Animal Action (in Greek) / Greek Animal Welfare Fund (in English)
Dogs' Voice (in Greek)
World Wildlife Fund (in Greek) / World Wildlife Fund (in English)
Here are three fundraising campaigns to help Greece recover from the fires (again, tell us about others, so we can share them, too):
Evia Fire: Greece Relief Fund Campaign on GoFundMe (in English)
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in partnership with International Orthodox Christian Charities (in English)
North Evia Reforestation after the Wildfires Campaign on GoGetFunding (in English)
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Opa!
Peter and the Greece Is the Word Crew