2024-03-24 18:15:17
A few days ago during a trip to Athens, my dear friend Anastasia Korinthiou, writer and journalist, gave me an unexpected surprise at the magical place of Booking Hill.
The presentation of my first fairy tale “Hold me, let me hold you”, among dear friends who magically happened to be there… By Vassilis Ypsilantis, Dodecanese Member of Parliament and legal advisor of the Dodecanese Association of Autoimmune Arthritis and Lupus “THALEIA”, by Mania Michailidou head of the Dodecanese Antiquities Tax Office, Athanasia Pappa, president of the Hellenic Antirheumatic Society EL.E.ANA. and several others.
As George Bernard Shaw says, “Some people think things as they are and ask ‘why.’ I dream of them as I would like them to be and I think “why not”…
The writing of the fairy tale began to answer the hows and whys of my then young grandchildren, Thalitsa and Manolakis… What is an autoimmune disease… and how I managed to make a wolf my “friend”…
For the completion of this fairy tale, I thank from the bottom of my heart, the sweetest Katia Palaska, illustrator, who gave color to my fairy tale… Companionship with the drawings of my beloved granddaughter Thalia and my little Penny.
And of course the beloved publisher Giorgos Lebesi, who with endless creativity and infinite generosity manages to turn love into art…
Finally, I thank my ¨friend¨ the wolf, because without him, I would not have found my way, I would not have known myself… my endurance and my friends. I wouldn’t make it until today!
Thank you,
Thalia Georga