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Ithaca

Ithaca

Somewhere between
the islands
of Hydra and Crete
he found
and he did then
fall in love completely
with the
legend that is now Ithaca

 

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Neville

Thank you kindly Greg .. How kind you are sir :) N 

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Leah Yodico

The home place of Oddyseus...
I haven't been there ....Have you been to Symi island? It's beautiful too. 
Thanks for sharing 

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Neville

Thank you for taking a peek at my little scribble Leah .. I have been to quite a few of the many Greek islands but never to Symi .. so I can imagine how beautiful it might be .. Until I maybe do visit, I will take your word for it .... N:)

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Marion

Isn't Ithaca the destination for some kind of spiritual Journey? ...where a oneness of spirit and an inner peace has been found
...as well as being a place of course...sounds like you loved it there Neville and also found whatever it was you were looking for...hugs x
 

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Neville

I am not sure whether ithaca or any derivative is a place, destination or journey other than the Greek island .. but of course, it might be ...
I wonder whether you are thinking of bardo (even though it looks and sounds nothing like ithaca ... 
In some schools of Buddhism, bardo (Classical Tibetan: བར་དོ་ Wylie: bar do) or antarābhava (Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese as zhōng yǒu and in Japanese as chūu is an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth. The concept arose soon after Gautama Buddha's death, with a number of earlier Buddhist schools accepting the existence of such an intermediate state, while other schools rejected it ... 

Yes I had a lovely break Marion thanks & thanks again for checking in today ....................... Neville x

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Being Me

Ithacka — the meaning of life. Did he, I wonder, find the meaning of life while travelling? Those Greek Islands are beautiful x

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Neville

Those Greek islands are indeed beautiful .. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm certain that I found the meaning of life while travelling .. tis how I measure time between one break and the next ............................... x

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