Some performances start, and young people don’t really want you there, because they have no idea what this is about. It’s not just the voice that has a unique sound, but also silence, because painters, musicians, dancers don’t think in words. Has it made you a better human being and a better father?’ I don’t know if it has made me better at anything but it has certainly made me a better student of life,” Simonides said. There is a theory about the butterfly effect: the power to cause a hurricane in one part of the world when a butterfly flaps its wings on the other end of the planet. The world can get better if we take responsibility for our own self.”Simonides won an Emmy award for producing and narrating the documentary “A Light Still Bright” on the Greeks of Istanbul.