dudemanflab's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 659, wherein a number is likened to a labyrinth and we find ourselves on a lengthy mulling on the making of said meditational devices Whilst the whole world is apparently cheering to 1000th entries (cheers Cammy and Cindy-- may your online selves extend many browsable pages into the future), I am still on 658. Well, this is 659. What did I expect 659 to look like? A street address, maybe. In a remote place. City blocks go in the thousands, but 659 is a number away from the millenial crowds. 659 sounds nice. Especially if you say six-fifty-nine, without the hundred. It's almost like a palindrome. Six-fifty-nine. You enter with a six, make a loop on the two f's of the fifty and come out as a nine. Like a labyrinth. This weekend I'm set to build a labyrinth at our State Forest in Hawley. I'm at the rock-collection point, with 41 of the needed (minimum) of 200 rocks, which is somewhat nice since I'm not sure where to go from there. A labyrinth is obviously tied to the earth. You walk in, you walk through, you walk out. But the things I don't know about are the astral events people sometimes tie them to, like lining up the center with the North Star or the Sun at the summer solstice. I also want to experiment with the landscape we have near our pond, and wind the path through pine trees, over and around large rocks, past flower gardens and stair steps. The only thing is that I've seen some labyrinth makers talk about it as though there are special, "sacred" dimensions, and I'd throw that mostly out the window if I made mine the way I want to. It's not that I have the biggest problem breaking with tradition in itself, but I wonder if that will affect how people interact with my labyrinth. As in, maybe other labyrinth makers use these tried and true dimensions because it's what best stirs a human being. It comes down to a fear that people walking mine wouldn't ever feel it was true, or that it was somehow off-kilter, unsettling. What do you think? 9:05 p.m. - June 18, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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