I was completely unaware of what Notre Dame meant to me, until I saw it burning. But nothing much to do with a God, just such glorious architecture that is centuries old.
But the people who built it obviously did believe in God. Two Hundred years it took to build.
I was totally in awe of The Musical, Notre Dame de Paris. The music is splendid and the story was in itself sad. It never quite jelled in English, but then English is not a particularly elegant language, while the French Language ever is. I missed the sound of it around me quite dreadfully on the rare occasions that I used to visit England.
I have never seen Notre Dame, and I almost certainly won’t now. It will take too long to rebuild it. But I bet they will.
I am also a bit sad that I never did The Camino de St. Iago de Compostela. But then regrets are usually about things you thought of doing and never did.
April 16, 2019 at 9:56 am |
I feel grief too….