Really bad knees today. The osteopanadol is not helping.
Music and Voltaren, and bed.
https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/1255806933/playlist/4D4aaXHQcGWxIag2o7NHHX
29 years ago I became a father for the first time.
The start of the very best time of my life.
Happy Birthday Sumana Freshwater!
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day.
Just hang in there.
Herbert James Draper – Ulysses and the Sirens – 1909
Sing, through me, O muse, the famous story
Of he, the wily wanderer far and wide
Who – after Ilium was lost – did travel
Through distant lands and cities; there to learn
The manners and the mysteries of men.
Though oceans overwhelmed his troubled heart
And waves of sorrow rocked him now and then
All his companions did he not abandon
He found his way, at last, back home again.
Homer – Odyssey – 1st stanza, retold by me 2017
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Muse make the man thy theme, for shrewdness famed
And genius versatile, who far and wide
A Wand’rer, after Ilium overthrown,
Discover’d various cities, and the mind
And manners learn’d of men, in lands remote.
He num’rous woes on Ocean toss’d, endured,
Anxious to save himself, and to conduct
His followers to their home.
Homer – translation by William Cowper, 1791
Henry Fuseli – Odysseus facing the choice between Scylla and Charybdis, 1794/6
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy.He saw the townlands
and learned the minds of many distant men,
and weathered many bitter nights and days
in his deep heart at sea, while he fought only
to save his life, to bring his shipmates home.
Homer – translation by Robert Fitzgerald, 1961
It is never too late to begin an odyssey.
I have poetry in my soul.
After a few days my wild new friend stopped turning up at my place. Such gratitude after I fed him so often. I had even made arrangements for someone to feed him while I was away. I also have in my freezer half a kangaroo that I got just for him. Ah well. At least I still have someone to talk to. Rim Leaper, my green tree frog, is still living in my toilet.
0 – 0 = ?
Zero minus zero.
If you have nothing, and then take it away, what is left?
Beyond the dreaming place
I watch from my darkness
All the stars I know
Kiss your head, my love
Beyond the dreaming place
And no backward journey
Nothing’s left of that time
That door is shut forever
Now is the time to move on
Beyond the dreaming place
Tim Harries, Robert Johnson, Peter Knight, Gay Woods
