The iPod was the cool Christmas present.
If you’re given a set of worry beads, your grandmother will probably sneer that it’d suit you better to buy a rosary and say a few prayers.
Most worry bead users pray as they roll each bead between thumb and forefinger. But even the displacement activity of fingering the beads has been a coping mechanism of some cultures – including the Greeks – since ancient times.
This week, metal worry surfaced in the hands of the new socialist finance minister in Greece, George Papaconstantinou. Understandably.
Athens this week was not one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. It was more like a landfill. Everywhere you looked, you saw garbage. Newspapers flailed their way out of plastic sacks and blew across roads, flattening themselves against the windscreens of the city’s ever-present cars.
People thanked God it was winter, because the cold, relative to the summer heat of Athens, kept the organic rubbish from putrefying too quickly. Sanitation workers had been on strike for a fortnight.
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