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September 2014 Peregrinos
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[QUOTE="sriyantra, post: 240831, member: 27441"] [B]To all September Camino walkers - thanks for your sharing of ideas and thoughts and all the practical help advice.... I love the poem [I]Ithaca[/I] and it sums up my feelings as we do our final preparations to leave to walk the Camino.[/B] As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them unless you bring them along inside your soul, unless your soul sets them up in front of you. Hope the voyage is a long one. May there be many a summer morning when, with what pleasure, what joy, you come into harbors seen for the first time; may you stop at Phoenician trading stations to buy fine things, mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony, sensual perfume of every kind— as many sensual perfumes as you can; and may you visit many Egyptian cities to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars. Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you are destined for. But do not hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you are old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you have gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you would not have set out. She has nothing left to give you now. And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean. [IMG]http://www.cavafy.com/images/line.jpg[/IMG] Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard (C.P. Cavafy, [I]Collected Poems.[/I] Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are interested have a look at [MEDIA=youtube]1n3n2Ox4Yfk[/MEDIA] - Sean Connery reciting the poem - I find it very powerful. Embrace all that you have been through just to get to the starting line of the Camino. May your Camino (Ithaca) be a rich experience. Buen Camino..... [/QUOTE]
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