Let Ithaka be always in your thoughts.
To get there is your goal and destiny.
But do not hasten to your journey’s end:
it’s better if it lasts for many years
so that you'll reach the island when you’re old,
wealthy with all you’ve gained along the way,
not hoping Ithaka will make you rich.
Your marvellous journey is Ithaka’s 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, you’ve not been fooled.
So wise have you become, so much you’ve 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 “It’s All Greek (& Latin!) to Me”.
Posted: Feb 06
Those clouds look solid, like shaving cream. Love it. Those clouds are rising moisture from the water treatment ponds, like the clouds we see in eastern Canada, rising from the thousands of little lakes in our area.
The first one is great, too — but it needs a crane sitting on those branches, about a quarter of the way in on the left look to the right. A “happy dot”, third element.
Barbara – Cue the crane! Or egret, I guess . . . I guess I’ll just have to go back and try again. Sigh. What I suffer for my art.
the sky of the second is gorgeous – although lumpy!
Barry – I always appreciate a knowledgeable comment – and you’ve passed a fair bit of your working life actually in a sky somewhere!
Love the technical talk…
Barbara – Lumpy might not sound technical, but I wonder if a pilot would recognize it as a term of art.