Cold Stone Collections

Not having been in Ireland before my trip earlier this year, whenever I saw anything made of stone - whatever it was - the constructed stone features stood out and caught my attention. An old church ruin on the grounds at Oak Park is where the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority Teagasc has its national administrative headquarters. A blending of new uses among the old.

Thus glory endeth,

and gold fadeth,

on noise and clamours

the night falleth.

Lift up your hearts,

lords and maidens,

for the song of sorrow

that was sung of old.

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun

J.R.R. Tolkein

Here is a collection of stones fit into walls at Oak Park - each has its own beauty, having been set together more than a couple of hundred years before.

 

 

If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe -no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house. The only way in which we could expect it to show itself would be inside us as an influence or a command trying to get us to behave in a certain way. And that's just what we do find inside us.

The Case for Christianity

C.S. Lewis