Friday 18 January 2008

A glass of her Wine with her Silence.....

















Nice photo, you see! Wonderful place! Beautiful old lady!One Albanian & one Orthodox Syrian(Suryani), short but unforgetable coincidence! These all could only happen during my colourful journey to Midyat* (Province of Mardin) in Southern-East of Turkey.
She could tell me her age by showing with her little hand two times 4 fingers, following 5 others, so 85. She could speak Aramice(Suryanis language), Kurdish and Arabic, none of them I could.
I was near her to drink some of her hand made wine, the most special in Midyat, and she knew it. Without talking, just smiling she gave me one glass of wine and we were afoot on her garden, full of silence and sun's last lightening.

Before leaving, I asked her a bottle of her wine and a photo(12 years old Arabian boy translated), for the wine ok, but no photo because I'm not beautiful any more with these blind eyes....if we will be together in the photo,.... then ok ....she said.

*Midyat - http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/midyat