tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15294396.post2963469042593386365..comments2023-10-20T01:32:30.820-07:00Comments on Maritime Compass: Finding Odysseus' HomeHeatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03048621541226232919noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15294396.post-287875193976279552008-03-10T08:38:00.000-07:002008-03-10T08:38:00.000-07:00I hadn't ever read that before--thanks so much for...I hadn't ever read that before--thanks so much for posting it, jarrett--it's beautiful.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03048621541226232919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15294396.post-72299629959560018252008-03-07T15:05:00.000-08:002008-03-07T15:05:00.000-08:00do you know this one? a poem by C.P. Cavafy: As yo...do you know this one? a poem by C.P. Cavafy:<BR/><BR/> As you set out for Ithaka<BR/>hope your road is a long one,<BR/>full of adventure, full of discovery.<BR/>Laistrygonians, Cyclops,<BR/>angry Poseidon-don't be afraid of them:<BR/>you'll never find things like that on your way<BR/>as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,<BR/>as long as a rare excitement<BR/>stirs your spirit and your body.<BR/>Laistrygonians, Cyclops,<BR/>wild Poseidon-you won't encounter them<BR/>unless you bring them along inside your soul,<BR/>unless your soul sets them up in front of you.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Hope your road is a long one.<BR/>May there be many summer mornings when,<BR/>with what pleasure, what joy,<BR/>you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time;<BR/>may you stop at Phoenician trading stations<BR/>to buy fine things,<BR/>mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,<BR/>sensual perfume of every kind-<BR/>as many sensual perfumes as you can;<BR/>and may you visit many Egyptian cities<BR/>to learn and go on learning from their scholars.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Keep Ithaka always in your mind.<BR/>Arriving there is what you're destined for.<BR/>But don't hurry the journey at all.<BR/>Better if it lasts for years,<BR/>so you're old by the time you reach the island,<BR/>wealthy with all you've gained on the way,<BR/>not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.<BR/>Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.<BR/>Without her you wouldn't have set out.<BR/>She has nothing left to give you now.<BR/><BR/><BR/>And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.<BR/>Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,<BR/>you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.WeSailFurtherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00682759107915210686noreply@blogger.com