For the 1000th picture in my 365 project, I am displaying the small labyrinth I have just cut in a part of my lawn. Unlike mazes, labyrinths have only one single serpentine path going from one entry point to one center point, and no dead ends. In my picture the entry is on the bottom left, close to the bush, and you can follow the path leading to the old wooden wheel at the center. Slowly walking the labyrinth is viewed as a meditation or healing path, it is a long tradition going back at least to the Middle Ages. Many French cathedrals have a labyrinth embedded in their pavement (the most famous one being the labyrinth of Chartres), but there are also some outside of France like in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. See : https://www.almanac.com/news/what-is-labyrinth-garden https://gracecathedral.org/our-labyrinths/
Oh, I didn’t know that Etienne, thank you for that information ! Makes sense, though as a meditation tool and rather wonderful to have it in your garden now 👍
@cocobella@ludwigsdiana@momamo@777margo@ethelperry@tinley23@ginnys@jetr@k9photo Thanks to all of you for your nice comments. I am not sure where I am going to go with this : I will maintain it for the coming weeks for sure, i.e. mow the grass along the path and let the rest of the grass grow tall, and then I will see where I go from there on. I got the idea from our daughter who just made a larger and more complex labyrinth in her own garden. Her children do like it a lot, and as you might have noticed in a corner of my picture, even cats seem to prefer to follow the mowed path :-)
I love that...the photo and the info. If I can get to San Francisco I an going to look for that. As a coincidence, my health insurance company just gave us a free subscription to the Calm app and the subject of the day was walking meditation.
June 9th, 2020
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