Changing the World, One Labyrinth at a Time

What strange simplicity to presume that the world can change, but even stranger any assumption that it won't.  Change is the most common constant.  And thanks to all faces and names of deity that change is with us, for by goddess we sure need it!

I make change in small ways and large.  I choose change in myself, whenever I find a gap in my wholeness.  I think others do the same, though at differing rates and with various levels of commitment.  Perception must always come first, though.  No problem can be solved unless it is first acknowledged.  And how do people in our stressed out world find a moment to contemplate their reality, whether personal or global?

On a labyrinth, of course.  (All right, I may be biased...)  The stillness of mind that is the goal of meditation has almost always eluded me.  But when I walk the labyrinth, my body is occupied, and my mind is somehow freed in ways that sitting has never brought me.  So naturally, I have set out to share!

Last Wednesday, July 25th of 2006,  I completed the first labyrinth in a public park in Austin, Texas.  There will be more, I'm sure.  Maybe grander, maybe with more hooplah.  But this is my work, made more than halfway by my own hands, and I love it.  If you get to Austin, come visit and walk the path.  It's in Greenbrier Park at 2810 Slaughter Lane.

May you always return to Center.

Namaste,
Crow