Happy Labyrinth Walking Danielle !
Gobble Gobble Gobble
Munch Munch Munch
Hope your Labyrinth Walking
Helped digest Lunch !
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 11, 2020
@HiMYSYeD I love how I can always spot your labyrinths on account of the heart ♥️ 🌀 pic.twitter.com/zloXDPOweC
— Danielle Lenarcic Biss (@lenarcicbiss) August 20, 2019
“High Park haiku number 88.
Do you know the difference between a Labyrinth and a maze?
A Labyrinth has no tricks or dead ends.
There’s just one path,
And the purpose is simply to walk it.
It takes me about 11 minutes to amble through this Labyrinth.
I like to walk in silence, or listen to soft music, or pray…
Honestly this must be the only place in the park I can walk for 11 minutes without distractions.”
“Sunday,
We came across this cool little Labyrinth stone circle by False Creek.
Intrigued by one of my friend’s friend explanation of how it is meant as a reflective meditative journey/walk to contemplate and to feel,
We of course had to try this fun little exercise out.
The 3 of us tried it.
I was surprise – it worked.
The 3 of us came to the exit with very different thoughts and emotions invoked:
- a sense of peace with decisions made,
- an openness to what the world is offering followed by noticing three simple words ‘Love is Everywhere’ etched on a log ahead,
- and oddly the rush of anxiousness wondering when am I going to get the heck out of this circle.
Perhaps it is the slowing down to realize how far we’ve come along.
Perhaps it highlighted the present moment.
Perhaps it is the unknown of how many more turns before I get there;
I should embrace the unknown a little bit, lol.
Fast forward.
Today I did the grouse grind after work.
My mind was only focused on the goal at top.
There was no musing, only pushing myself harder, faster, stronger – feeling my legs and my lungs.
The circle, the grind, and the musing!
Try it, if not for the musing, for the curiosity.
It’s good to slow down once in a while 🙂 “
Was waiting for temperatures to warm up before refreshing my Labyrinth opposite Christie Subway Station.
Now waiting until it’s prudent to stop social isolating to head out with paint and brush.
Still, happy to see someone walking the Labyrinth in midst of the pandemic . . .
Squint closely and you might spot me sporting my blue Labyrinth shirt while painting the farthest most Labyrinth in this image . . .
Looking north on Augusta Avenue showing two of the four Labyrinths I painted here . . .
This Orange Labyrinth was the first in a series that I painted on what I hoped to become Labyrinth Pier Vancouver . . .
Still being walked . . .
Yay !
It is challenging to both use one’s smartphone device and successfully walk a Labyrinth at the same time . . .
Friends don’t let Friends Walk Labyrinths with their devices in hand !
Walking the perimeter of my Wading Pool Labyrinth in Christie Pits Park, Toronto…
Grown-up leading a first Labyrinth Walk with little ones in tow;
Perhaps, having shown the way, thereafter encouraging the kids to explore and play in the Labyrinth on their own?
Eventually, all ducklings leave the nest.
“Clearly not enough time within the world of Pedestrian Sunday but you have a feeling that there is a future for streets without cars.
It’s the the best parts of the Open Streets TO concept and long standing street festivals like Taste Of The Danforth;
Would very much enjoy City of Toronto giving over more control of our streets to the people.
Where we can remove the need for cars, let’s do it.
Creating spaces to create & inspire, to buy & sell, to meet people, friends and strangers, let’s do it.”
And who can resist a Mom asking if her Little One can walk a still-being-painted Labyrinth ?
Not I.
He and his mom were the first walkers of my first of two Labyrinths painted on Kensington Avenue . . .
This is the moment I arrived in the Centre after finishing painting a Sky Blue Heart into each of the Aglets of the Labyrinth.
The presence of Hearts transforms the experience and meaning of walking The Labyrinth.
This remains true even for me, the Labyrinth’s maker!
