My Mom
Penny Arnold
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 6 January 1928 ~ Naples, Florida, 22 November, 2020
Susan and I love that photograph of Mom, fully Ireland. There are no stonewalls anywhere in the world like the Irish ones. The Germans and Swiss have their own style, so do the Italians and certainly the Chinese (The Great Wall!) and Vermont has them as well and I’ve built plenty of them. But the Irish wall seems most in play not quite finished, as if the wall builder has gone off for a pint, or a smoke, or is visiting, and the walls wait there, centuries, for a completion and one will never come. Ireland ever growing. Very organic walls.
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On Raglan Road, The Dubliners
(Patrick Kavanagh)
