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

Dawn Treader, Christmas 2010

This is an update to an earlier blog. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will be at the theater December 10th.

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I Like Children's Stories....

....and even better yet, well-made children's movies. I bought a copy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe while I was in graduate school, but didn't read the book until we had moved back to Oregon, with four kids, and saw the first hour of the story on Oregon Public Broadcasting television one Saturday late afternoon. I read the entire book before by the time the second part of the movie was on the next Saturday. This kids story blew me away - that is for another blog. I had read last year that Disney had dropped production of the theater version of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. After seeing my son's 100-days-to-graduation count-down blog - I checked out the Web to see what was posted about the third Chronicles of Narnia story, only to be pleasantly surprised to find out that Fox had picked it up, and that it may be released in December this year - this should be good news. Of the original BBC movie adaptations of the C.S. Lewis stories that were broadcast on PBS - which were remarkably close to the narrative of the original books - the Dawn Treader was my favorite....plenty of fantasy to go all around....sailing to the end of the world....enchantments brought to an end....sorry to see the story end. I hope that there will be enough momentum with this film to finish the series - three down, four to go. Maybe some one will figure out that it would be worth it to make an animated version of The Horse and His Boy, release it at Christmas time, and some how get to The Last Battle in film.