This Santa Rosa Labyrinth is part of a "Labyrinth Garden at the Wilbur D. May Arboretum, within Washoe County's Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, is a project initiated by the Nevada State Attorney General's Office, the Washoe County District Attorney's Office and VICTORY (Victim's in Crisis, Turmoil or Recovery). It is dedicated to victims of violent crime in our community and their loved ones." Installed 2003.

Joanne Frank's
Santa Rosa Labyrinth
from an aerial view.

The Santa Rosa Labyrinth
at the Inter-faith Peace Park
in Toledo, Ohio
at Collingwood Presbyterian Church.
Installed Spring 2004.

We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time...
...and all shall be well and
and all manner of things shall be well
when the tongues of flame are in-folded
into the crowned knot of fire
and the fire and the rose are one.

-T.S.Eliot from Four Quartets

Jose Cuesta builds his annual temporary, public labyrinth in the sand, using the Santa Rosa design, on a beach along the
Caribbean coast of Covenas Colombia.
Jose says, "This labyrinth has become a feature every Easter, this being the fourth one built.The labyrinth is built in a public beach and is used by all kinds of people during the easter holiday."

Jose continues, "Pictures show that although local fishermen life goes on as usual, some people have the new experience of walking and using the labyrinth. The elderly man is my 90 year old father who had to be helped by his nurse to walk the labyrinth."

Dayle Marshall and Rita Caroni
are the heart and soul of Ispiritual,
the source of the finest finger-labyrinths to be found.

Here Dayle and Rita
hold the Santa Rosa Labyrinth,
made out of aromatic
Spanish Cedar.
Nestled at the entrance to the finger-labyrinth is one of their newest ventures, "Listen To Your Heart" cards in collaboration with labyrinther Rebecca Rodriguez.

-Anahata!-

The rose
blooms
in the flame
of the heart.

Lea Goode-Harris
Heart space of the Santa Rosa Labyrinth
Spring 2004

Reverend Wendy McNiven (photo©)
and the Uniterian Fellowship of Kelowna,
British Colombia have created
this lovely painted Santa Rosa Labyrinth
on their gym floor.

This beautiful
Santa Rosa Labyrinth was created in concrete stain at the Ceta Glen Christian Camp, in Happy Texas in 2004.
(photos© Rev. Mary Lou Dillon)

Reverend Mary Lou Dillon says,
"We had a real spiritual connection working on the labyrinth. Then after the 2nd coat, we walked it, very carefully avoiding stepping on any lines, then stood in the center to pray together. Several of us felt the hair on the back of our necks tingle - it was electrifying."

Rev. Mary Lou and team
created a beautiful pausing place
at the entrance
with the challis.

The best things in life are nearest:
Breath in your nostrils,
light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet,
duties at your hand,
the path of right just
before you.
-Robert Louis Stevenson,
novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)

3 year-old Aidan
plays with a Santa Rosa Finger Labyrinth.

photo-mom- aka Christine Naber, Ph.D.