Santa Rosa Labyrinth Heart-Space 25 Years

twenty-five years spin
this path of beauty unfolds
step into your heart

The curiosity and wonder are as fresh today as they were with my first step into the labyrinth.

And I think that is one of the greatest gifts possible from the many and diverse labyrinths

that we encounter at this point in history.

There have been challenges.

Oh have there been challenges and opportunities to explore

the unconscious hidden patterns and obstacles that were once maybe a protection…

that became a detour from living life to the fullest.

I am as grateful to them

as I am to the joys and wonders found in the labyrinth.

And, I am forever grateful to the many, many people and organizations

who have used the Santa Rosa design to make incredible and beautiful labyrinths now around the world.

Simple and complex.
Permanent and ethereal.
Unique expressions of the heart.

I am especially appreciative of the friendship and explorations with Marilyn Larson, who helped me bring the design from paper to the ground for the first time on Memorial Weekend, 1997, and the three other women who came together a year later, on Mother’s day weekend, 1998 to draw the first Santa Rosa Labyrinth on canvas. Kimberly Saward, Alyssa Hall, and Sue Anne Foster. That canvas labyrinth, painted by Sue Anne with ivy for the lines, went out into the world and spread its beauty far and wide.

Happy Birthday Path of my Heart!