If it's Greek to you, and some currents of the Odyssey are in your veins, find happiness in the Rest & the Remains of the Days.

Ithaca

When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclopes,
an angry Poseidon — do not fear.
You will never find such on your path,
if your thoughts remain lofty, and your spirit
and body are touched by a fine emotion.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclopes,
a savage Poseidon you will not encounter,
if you do not carry them within your spirit,
if your spirit does not place them before you.
Wish for the road to be long.
Many the summer mornings to be when
with what pleasure, what joy
you will enter ports seen for the first time.
Stop at Phoenician markets,
and purchase the fine goods,
nacre and coral, amber and ebony,
and exquisite perfumes of all sorts,
the most delicate fragances you can find.
To many Egyptian cities you must go,
to learn and learn from the cultivated.
Always keep Ithaca in your mind.
To arrive there is your final destination.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better for it to last many years,
and when old to rest in the island,
rich with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaca to offer you wealth.
Ithaca has given you the beautiful journey.
Without her you would not have set out on the road.
Nothing more does she have to give you.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you.
Wise as you have become, with so much experience,
you must already have understood what Ithacas mean.

by Constantine P. Cavafy (Greek poet, born in Alexandria, Egypt of Greek parents, who wrote in Greek but barely knew the Motherland except in history and myth)

Youtube: Ithaca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3n2Ox4Yfk

A Virgo Woman
www.artihonrao.net/2007/04/virgo-woman.html

Your birthday??? Have a happy day...love.

Happy birthday...miss you.

Happy birthday!! Hope to see you this winter!!

Wishing my ole time friend lots of good health, happiness and food!

Miss Julie... Hronia polla...Happy Birthday (in Greek)...The wish that we can send you, from here in Kefallonia, is the one we send to make our slippery naiads smile:

If things get better with age, then you are approaching magnificent.

We, on the Way (El Camino) to another special day of your/our complete journey around the sun, wish to celebrate with this Ju-Ju other song-images of onward to a mythically real Ithaca.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmYiXmHhrd8&feature=related