Gargoyle from the Notre-Dame Cathedral looking over the city, Paris. Photo taken in 1996 by Remy De La Mauviniere (Associated Press).

Antique owl door, c. 1930, Copenhagen

Museum in Japan with naturally formed rocks with faces on them

Nietzsche, this one stays with you.

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” — Oscar Wilde

The Baggotonia Calendar will be for sale at Grants Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 4. from Thursday afternoon 30th Oct

I don't think any Taoiseach in the history of the state has ever done this before? A really bad look.

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Robert Frost

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” -- Margaret Mead

“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.” — Alan Watts

instagram.com/p/DQ1gfuajHoS/ Community of Hope - The Simon Community

NEW EPISODE of Three Castles Burning. Cormac Murray is the author of a new study of the US Embassy in Ballsbridge. This building was divisive in its day - both here and abroad - but Cormac places it in its architectural and social context brilliantly. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/mod…

“Resist much, obey little.” ― Walt Whitman

Medieval humor at the Abbey of Saint Foy, Conques, France, c. 1050.

DaVinci Cathédrale de Bourges, XIIe century 😇

Post Office, Usher Quay, Dublin 2015 A rare example of respect for architectural patrimony.

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." — William Shakespeare

“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.” - Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek