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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: Desert
Devils Tower, WY
Near and far views of a laccolith. Continue reading
Badlands Trailhead, SD
Sign-in book at hiking trailhead. Continue reading
Go South and West, Old Photographer
Scenes of, and thoughts about, the Badlands. Continue reading
Desert Vista, Kata Tjuta, AUS
A desert vista from Australia that is remarkably similar to one from Arizona. Continue reading
Desert Vista, Las Vegas NV
A 2014 trip to Las Vegas turns up unexpected vistas. Continue reading
Bitter. Sweet.
Bam! Off to my left, four mourning doves explode from cover and I jump involuntarily. My heart pitter-patters from the unexpectedness of it all. As they flap awkwardly off to what they evidently see as better cover, I mutter a … Continue reading
Lead Dog
A series of desert walks leads to an insight about leadership at work. At the trailing end of a peripatetic foursome, I look down the trail. The men have gone on ahead a little way; my sister and I … Continue reading