Grave detail, Old Sheldon Church, Garden Corners, SC

Age doesn't destroy but enhances. In the United States, we tear down or destroy everything that is old and replace it with something new, something not built to last, something with a built-in obsolescence. In Europe they live in buildings that are thousands of years old, repaired and repaired again, respected for the fact that they have endured. This gravestone is at least 140 years old, maybe older. It has not lost its beauty, age has enhanced it.