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
Nice spotting Isabel
Looking forward to next week’s yellow collection
Jim R – Here’s hoping . . .
What a good eye you have for the colour and for composition in your angles! Elevates what most of us would consider two mundane objects. I really like the photo.
Judith – Many thanks. A red traffic light (that gave me time to react) deserves an assist on this photo!
Good stuff, Isabel.
Tom
🙂
There are many yellows: banana, milky, Abazaba toffee, JAMES BROWN yellow (in your face bright), Post-it, baby. Look at car yellows — all over the place.
And have you noticed “green” lights are now turquoise?
Barbara – I had to look up Abba-Zaba toffee. That is a distinctive yellow – I’ll keep an eye open for it here. As for turquoise traffic lights, no, I hadn’t noticed, but I trust your eye over mine every day. Here’s Atlas Obscura on traffic lights in Japan.