Raise a white sail

Thanks for the title to Cowboy Junkies and their song by Michael Edward Timmins.

White sails can be important! I’m just reading old Greek myths again. Theseus neglectedto raise a white sail and so his father Aegeus. who awaited his return, thought he was dead and he threw himself from a high rock into the sea, henceforth known as the Aegean. All but for a white sail. Nobody knew how to use a washing machine or what?!

One Word Sunday: White

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6 thoughts on “Raise a white sail

    1. That’s what I thought and our Greek holiday seemed to be the perfect starting point. I guess I’m thinking differently to when I was a teenager (d’uh!) but those maskuline heroes and their flawed characters (in very typical male ways) and hybris is starting to p… me off. Also, I was listening to a podcast (recommended by a fellow blogger) about Odysseus and they all but destroyed my childhood hero. So maybe I should have left my memories alone.

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      1. I’ve listend to Stephen Fry narrating his own book on the early myths. That was fun! So, maybe, I’ll give his next three in the series a try.

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