To see your home better, you have to step outside of it. That way you will see it in its full perfection. In order to better see Mikra, but truly great Asia, we were once forced to leave its lands, because it was so vast that our eyes and souls could not perceive and comprehend its magnificence. When you lose something and stand from afar, you appreciate and honor it more worthy. We left Smyrna, and thus we truly saved it in our hearts and dreams as an ideal, immortal like Odysseus' Ithaca…