Celtic Cross of Journeys and Meetings

On the journey of this life our paths cross many opportunities, the most challenging can be tose encounters with other human beings. The meeting that may bring us fulfilment or even frustration depends on the most startling chance & circumstance. The cross, joinin vertical & horizontal, is a symbol of the importance & pain of the encounter.

Once it is achieved there are so many obstacles in its path amid the prosaic & petty demands of life. Unions missed, unions broken, uncompleted unions, disasters, misunderstandings, estrangements. The journey from the very first meeting to true union & love, is long & arduous. This carving by Kathleen Smyth, of a man & a woman on either side of the Tre of Life, is from a stone, 500 years old, in Donegal, Ireland.

10 inches tall, wall hanging, hand cast in Kinsale.