(Post)Lentenblog 2008 :: Labyrinth 18

It is [almost] finished!

This morning, Gordon and Jeanene finished up the last arc of the labyrinth (save a gap five stones in length, which they left undone for me to finish up on Wednesday night... a nicely symbolic number considering the giant undertaking).

All that's left is (see drawing above) creating curvilinear endcaps on the labryses (switchbacks) and putting in the luminations (petals), and then I'm moving on to create some guided prayer sheets (hopefully a set for adults and another set for early readers) to have on hand in some kind of wooden mailbox or something there at the start of the labyrinth.

So I'm also thinkin' about that.

Comments

[real live preacher]

Not only that, we even left you a pile of stones to choose from. No more buckets for you!

;-)

Oh, I also included a small piece of red brick in the area we worked on. Jeanene actually placed it in a way that you can't really see it. It seemed kind of cool to me to have a piece of whatever used to be on our property in the labyrinth. There were a number of piles of debris that looked like a house or building had once been here and been torn down. We don't know for sure. There were some boards up in trees that could have been very ancient deer blinds. I really don't know. Oh, also I found a marble with a little telephone pole insulator that looked very old. It's in my office.

So it seems like someone used to live here or be here. I thought it might be nice to have a piece of their history included. I also think it would be cool to have our ancient, native person's hand tool in there too. It's a rock, so we could put it in the ring somewhere.

[Lindsay]

I wandered into your blog, after a series of random clicks. Loved the Sunday poem. But I am fascinated by your labyrinth project. I first read about walking labyrinths as a prayer tool a few years ago in a book by an Episcopal woman in the midst of discerning her calling to the priesthood (wish I could remember the name of the book!) I was hooked on the concept!

But aside from a very tiny one in the gardens at Viscaya, a restored mansion here in Miami, I have never encountered one in person. I hope that someday I will have the chance to try this tool. I am so drawn to the idea!

Thank you for sharing the stages of your labyrinth's creation.

OK>>>G-d works in wonderful ways! As I was typing this, a friend called. I mentioned what I was writing about, and he said "There's a labyrinth at a church a few miles from me, and it's available to whoever wants to use it." WOW!!! Synchronicity!

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thanks for the post, lindsay. and i'm glad you found a labyrinth a few miles from you! let me know what your experiences are with it...