Labyrinths
"Unlike a maze, which can have many paths and dead ends and has to be logically figured out, a labyrinth has only one path, seen all at once, leading from the entrance to the center and back out again. The only decision is whether or not to enter. The mysterious serpentine path that takes us to the center becomes a mirror for our spiritual journey. Every walk is different; a snapshot in time. Touching our sorrows as well as our joys, the labyrinth is both tomb and womb, death and rebirth." ---Annette Reynolds
	Labyrinths, though ancient in concept and construction, are making a comeback in the waning years of the 20th Century. This is my very first labyrinth, constructed in the back yard of chalk dust and sweat on a sweltering afternoon in mid-July 1998. Well, everyone has to start somewhere!
	This rather more formal and much more complex labyrinth is at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. It's modeled after the one at Chartres cathedral in France and has inspired much of the current renaissance in labyrinthian thinking. There's lots more information at their web site.
	This al fresco labyrinth in Sweden is a modern restoration of a very old pattern found on the site. Some of the oldest surviving labyrinths in Europe are in Scandinavia.This one is based on a Cretan pattern which appears c. 1200 BCE. Click here for more historical labyrinths.