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
Your camera provides feedback superior to the human eye. You choose curiosity-satisfying close-ups. Your artistic eye finds scope, angles, and contexts that illuminate your perceptions of your subjects. I cease to anthropomorphize these creatures who inhabit our world in their unique ways. Having my sense of wonder revived is a wonderful antidote to the tedium of work and worries. “Consider the birds of the air . . . ” indeed!
Laurna – Thank you. The subjects are quite extraordinary to me and I’m glad they are to you, too. And who knows what their mothers think of them? 🙂
“The longer I look, the lovelier they get.” — Applies to just about every natural thing.
Barbara – Yes – a learning relatively late in my life, but a learning nonetheless. I can even look at spiders if I have my camera in my hand.
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