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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 yearsso 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
Tag Archives: Christmas
Try It – You’ll Like It
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A Tale of Two Russel(l)s
Being the 11th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. Moving with all the assurance of successful middle age, he walks to the front of the church and sits in the first pew. The … Continue reading
Cardinal Alert
Being the 10th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. A peripheral-vision flash of red catches the centre of my attention. One of the cardinals living somewhere in the adjacent linear park flits into … Continue reading
Cleaned Out
Being the 9th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. For those of us with the tidiness gene/impulse/obsession, this is a great time of year, when we can indulge in socially sanctioned tidying. Better … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Critical Thinking, New Years
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Back to the Future
Looking ahead 60 to 70 years, our children and grandchildren will live in an amazingly different world that we cannot begin to predict. But, as Dandridge Cole wrote, although we cannot predict the future, we can invent it. Continue reading
A Year in the Life
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Alpha Bravo Charlie
Being the 6th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas Alpha, bravo, Charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot, golf, hotel, India, Juliet, kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, papa, Quebec, Romeo, sierra, tango, uniform, victor, whiskey, x-ray, … Continue reading
Maybe Next Week
Being the 5th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. Standing in front of the candy counter, clutching my weekly allowance, I look longingly at the Cherry Blossom. Packaged in its own stylish box, … Continue reading
Miracle at Checkout 9
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