"If you want to make a living flower, you don't build it physically, with tweezers, cell by cell. You grow it from the seed." --Christopher Alexander, "The Timeless Way of Building."
The cottage was enchanting. There is something about it that is alive, unashamedly human, and outside of time.
It is truly a place where "peace comes dropping slow."
Nick and Anita are wonderful; they thought of everything, and what they have done building the cottage from seed is remarkable and important and beautiful.
This is a perfect place to find oneself (I was on a writing retreat), and when that has been accomplished, a nice anchor point from which to experience Ireland.
Thank you for showing me the importance of place.