February 18th was the birthday of: Nikos Kazantzakis, born in Heraklion in what is now Greece (1883). He is most famous as the author of Zorba the Greek (1946). But he also write The Odyssey, A Modern Sequel in verse.
the O man bits
twenty years a’wandering
An odyssey is a long series of wanderings. Twenty years is a very long time. Even when I was a kid I thought, “What a long trip” the O man took. To give it some perspective, going with the family for a Saturday afternoon drive, eating dinner out and coming home at night felt...