Let Ithaka be always in your thoughts.
To get there is your goal and destiny.
But do not hasten to your journeyâs end:
itâs better if it lasts for many years
so that you'll reach the island when youâre old,
wealthy with all youâve gained along the way,
not hoping Ithaka will make you rich.
Your marvellous journey is Ithakaâs gift.
Without her you would not have started out.
But she has nothing more to give you now.
And if you find she's poor, youâve not been fooled.
So wise have you become, so much youâve learned,
that you will know what Ithakas must be.
Source: Seen in passing on X-Twitter. Holler if you want the whole thing.
Author/Translator: Armand D'Angour, Professor of Classics, Oxford. Cello lover. Larkin about. Turning life into Latin verse, one hexameter at a time. Podcast âItâs All Greek (& Latin!) to Meâ.
Posted: Feb 06
Nicely captured Isabel.
I am sucker for fern fronds, not sure what it is about them….
Jim – I know! At some level, it doesn’t matter – if we just take pictures of things we like, it will all work out.
I remember having a feast of fiddleheads (well, they look somewhat similar, hence the connection), somewhere in New Brunswick, at a church supper. They were delicious. But I was warned not to eat too many of them. They apparently have an opposite effect to Imodium.
Jim T – OK, thanks – good safety tip.
Very Day of the Triffids. đ
Barbara – Yes, that’s the other viw of them. Jim R sort of fancies them . . .