Teacher Orhan Ari with his mother, in his younger days,
where he was born ~Lapithiou (a mountain-village, in the
remotest parts of Paphos - the farthest part of the island
of Cyprus), as the youngest of a brother and two sisters.

He had often repeated to his sons a saying in his culture: 'Paradise is
under the feet of one's mother' -the equivalent of 'Honour thy mother
and thy father' ~his father's portrait, in his living room, is adorned by
teacher Orhan Ari's poem -on behalf also of his brother & sisters for
his father which includes the following two verses:

"We think of you in our dole;

What we have and are, you we owe."

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"He'd talked of his father's liberal
views having helped shape his own"

Fedai,1992
Halkin Sesi