In this episode, Samara reflects on the bittersweet feeling of returning home after time away — the nostalgia, the shifts, the moments of disconnection.
She weaves together personal memory, Greek mythology, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, and the poem Ithaka by C.P. Cavafy.
🎧 Listen until the end for the poem’s last verses, and find the Sean Connery reading with music by Vangelis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3n2Ox4YfkWhat about you?
Have you ever returned to a place you thought you knew and found yourself a stranger there?
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