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labyrinth.

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so wonderful discovering the beautiful labyrinth

at the matthaei botanical gardens

i’ve been here a number of times

but have never found this

we slowly walked

round and round and round and round and round and round….

somehow changing directions at one point

i thought it to be a very short path in the beginning

but fell under its spell after a while

 way longer than i imagined

 it really does lead you to imagine

at last

finally finding ourselves

on the large stones in the center.

‘things outside you are projections of what’s inside you,

and what’s inside you is a projection of what’s outside.

so when you step into the labyrinth outside you,

at the same time you’re stepping into the labyrinth inside.’

-haruki murakami

 

 

 

photo credit: taken by Steve Jensen, in the summer

on our recent visit, this week, it was a moody and windy day

off to the nunnery.

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so off i go today

to the convent

where i’ll stay and meet up with

my sister and my aunt who is a sister

relax, talk, walk, meditate, share meals, laugh, cry, remember, tell stories

see her sacred and important places

shared spaces

if i was a nun

i imagine myself

singing and running through the hills

like sister maria in the alps

but i think this spring break

slow and easy

may be exactly perfect

a time of rest and renewal.

“get thee to a nunnery, go.”

– hamlet to ophelia (written by william shakespeare)

 

 

photo credit: 20th century-fox studios, the sound of music, 1965