Odysseus Had Thoughts on Wandering
- "For mortals, nothing is worse than wandering." - Odysseus.
- Odysseus wasn't wandering, he was lost. Trying to get home. But wandering is an outbound game. It's something you do moving away from familiar territory. Not trying to get back to it.
- If you don't know where you are on the way home, you're lost. If you don't know where you are when you're outbound, you're learning.
- Wandering catches shade because the wanderer isn't always engaged in consistent, visible, productive work. They aren't getting up every day to bake the village bread, day over day, year over year. And because the baker is reliable, they rarely take the day off to go wander. But it's really, really good for them when they do. Just as it's good for the wanderer to bank a bunch of iterations of the same day.
- Odysseus's voyage home was repeatedly blown off course by the whims of the Olympians. But the implication of his quote is telling. Wandering may be hell for mortals, but it is something else entirely for the gods.
- Here's the recipe for the cilantro-lime sauce we used in the breakfast burritos at my old coffee shop in the desert:
- 20g of cilantro. roughly chop and put into blender
- 25g green onion (bulb and stalk): roughly chop and put into blender
- 4 limes: roll to make juicy, cut in half, squeeze in juicer and put into blender
- 4 FULL cups of Greek yogurt (use spoon to get full amount) into blender
- 1 cup of oil
- 2 tbsp of salt
- 1 tbsp of sugar
- 2 tbsp of garlic
- Blend on setting 1 until creamy, but not runny.
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