http://www.mepkinabbey.org/home/virtual_tour.php On another topic unrelated to Eleanor, at the end of October, I had the pleasure of visiting Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, SC (near Charleston) and walking the labyrinth there. This is an outdoor labyrinth, so I can’t recommend that anyone seek it out for a few more weeks, but even in late October …
 http://www.caminodepaz.org/battery8-18-02.html One of my favorite places in New York City, and there are many such places, is the labyrinth at Battery Park. I discovered that this labyrinth existed when my friend Audrey was visiting me in the city. And what a lovely unexpected surprise it was to find such a space of quiet green …
 http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/chartres-cathedral-pictures/slides/labyrinth-lit-cc-jimforest.htm One of the labyrinths I have yet to walk, one of many, is the beautiful, ancient labyrinth at the Cathedral of Chartres in France. Built sometime between 1200 and 1240, it is old enough that Princess Alais might have walked it. Though I have been to Paris three times, I have never traveled …
I am walking the labyrinth tonight at the Church of the Servant. The motion of the spiral path leads to the center, a point of stillness where the old is released before I walk out of the labyrinth again to take up the new. I love the ritual of the New Year, a time of …
This year I plan to walk the labyrinth at the Church of the Servant in Wilmington, NC to release the old year with all its gifts and challenges, while welcoming the new one. I find that clearing the slate so that I can start clean is a huge step in my work as a writer. …
 http://www.gracecathedral.org/community/labyrinths/ One of my favorite things to do is to walk a labyrinth. These ancient paths, now re-created in churches and gardens across the country, allow me to reflect on my life, and then to let those reflections go. That is usually the hardest part for me, releasing the thoughts I have about my …