Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Jul 23, 2006

Fun with labyrinths

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While I was in Nevada I came across a labyrinth finder web site:

http://wwll.veriditas.labyrinthsociety.org/

It’s what led me to the wolves in Rancho San Rafael.

Anyway, I discovered that Sunnyvale, when they built their new downtown plaza, had installed a labyrinth. I had no idea. So, Don and I were down at the post office and decided to go check it out. It’s a huge one, and I’m not sure but it doesn’t quite seem to work, unless you’re supposed to go in one door, come out another, and use a third to get to the centre. I’m not sure.

We had fun. There were some young girls (two pre-teens and a tot) there with their dad and playing tag over the labyrinth as Don and I walked it. Then Dad noticed what we were doing and decided he was going to “do the maze” too. The girls decided to race around it. The tiny tot hung around on the edges waving her hands and laughing and being cute. Dad realised how huge the labyrinth was and started whinging about his feet. Don and I found it progressively more funny. Even so, all walking the labyrinth together, there was a sense of community that isn’t often found–which, I guess, was the point of building it. But I really had no idea it was there.

It was a nice peaceful interlude in this most horribly hot of days.