Opinci
This is how I imagine the free Dacians in the North of the country, the ones that remained unconquered by the Romans.
He was just making a wooden spoon at a traditional crafts fair in Mamaia and he really came from the North. Look at his costume (he had a beautiful embroidered shirt the next day, because it was a Sunday). He was wearing (and he also made) the oldest kind of footwear here, called "opinci" (ci is to be pronounced chi). They were made of a rectangular piece of thick leather, worn with woolen wraps or woolen socks, and tied to the feet using narrow strips of leather or strings made of goats or horsetail hair.
It's just as the Dacians on the column in Rome look. And as we looked at his clothes, his spoons, his works, we felt something I cannot name, a warm feeling for the past and the people of this place.
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We also have this kind of shoes. Very similar in Baleares Islands and a bit differetn, more rustic for farmers in Castilla.
Whatever our feelings may be, this life would be impossible nowadays. We have created a new order where quiet occupations have no place.
The great number of population has given birth to new emergencies.
That's our world! The world we chose to live in!
We chose? I doubt it!
Yes, we did. Each of us with every option we have done so far, have chosen.
It's Ok.
What you say makes me feel like a small wheel in a big machinery and it's not very pleasant. But maybe we are.
But anyway, thank you!
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