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
Somebody sent me a picture of a pair of slipper that appeared to be laughing. I tried to put it in here but, sigh, I couldn’t.
Tom
Tom – Yeah, it seems that there’s no option to insert a photo in a comment or a reply thereto, but this link to images should work.
Trés amusing! Slippers — always inappropriately giddy to see your feet.
Barbara – Well, my slippers never look giddy, even though my feet are tres cute.
I would call your trio a quartet, Isabel. If the picture of the hat on the left is turned counter-clockwise 90 degrees it has a rather different expression made from most of the same elements.
The coffee-cup lid I intend to forget because that is a “face” to which I get up close and personal quite often!
Laurna – Hahah – So it does! They’re just the gift that keeps on giving.