Labyrinth - Yellow Turtle Inn

A Walk In Tranquility

Our Labyrinth is open to the Public to Still your mind and Perhaps Find Your Inner Peace

I invite you to bring a plant, flower, bulb or herb to plant in the Labyrinth as your contribution to it's natural landscape. I have chosen to let nature dictate what will grow as well as add a few plants myself. It's always a surprise anytime of the year. Just like life isn't it?

There Will Be Peace In The World

If there is light in the soul

there will be beauty in the person

If there is beauty in the person

there will be harmony in the house

If there is harmony in the house

there will be order in the nation

If there is order in the nation

there will be peace in the world

All life is relationship.

Our interactions with those we love -

family and friends, collegues, acquaintences and even strangers

are just a small fraction of the elaborate network of universal life.

We are connected to everything and everybody even when we are unaware of this profound association.

The word remember means to unite with those people in your family, your community, and your life.

Welcome to my home

Come walk the Labyrinth and Re - Member the light in your soul

Joan

Inspired by the Angels to Julie Flaherty

The Candles were lit

The Music was playing

The Moon was full

I looked around and thought it has finally come true

I have been talking and visualizing this walk for years

It has started

It was truely an inspiring moment

Finding the inner peace in each of us and then taking that peace out into the world

So special

Our Labyrinth is created with what Mother Nature has provided us . I used stumps to mark the path because that is what I had.

A lesson in perception. At one time the stumps were seen as firewood and now they are seen as path markers and at times resting places to meditate.

Perception is everything. Change your perception of the world and you change your world.

This Labyrinth is full of symbollogy if you are looking for it.

Other Side

One day I walked the Labyrinth with a friend who had lost his mother not too long ago. He got tired and sat down to rest on the stump bench. I sat along side of him facing the same way he was sitting.

I heard "You must look up.I have not left you" so I spoke these words to him.

Then I asked him "Do you understand?" . I answered my own question. "No, you do not, but I have planted the seed."

I got up and continued on the path. As I rounded the bend in the path, I then came back to him but on the other side. I sat down again next to him but sat the opposite way with our backs against each other.

"Do you see what I have done? I have left you but I am still here. Do you understand me? I have left you and am on the other side, but I am still here! Do you understand? She left you but she is still near."

Tears overwhelmed this man. He could not speak the rest of the day.

He had a change of perception and went away with a lighter heart.

Joan. .

Stumps

As I began walking the Labyrinth my eyes began taking in all the sights to behold. First the greenery, then the Black Eyed Susans, then the wild grasses. I continued to walk finding my own kind of quietness inside.

I sat down on the stump benches and became still.

I am an artist so I notice detail in life.

I found my eyes fixated on the stumps used to mark the path. Some had fungus in all colors growing on them. Others had pieces beginning to fall off of them as they decayed. Still others seemingly dead had new growth coming from the center where they had given a seed a place for a new start.

I pondered how these stumps were so much like life. Sometimes we just sit and seem dead, but maybe we are just waiting for a new seed to give us life. Or perhaps we are here just as guides to help others on their path. FG

Changing Perceptions of Weeds

As I was mowing the Labyrinth for a Girl Scout Troop to come walk the path I recalled how I had initially wanted to have the Labyrinth all neat and proper. I looked at all the interesting plants that had found their way into this natural Labyrinth. Behold some of those plants that I had called weeds had blossomed and were certainly a thing of beauty! I had never really looked at them before because I was so busy pulling them or mowing them down.

Then I took my perception one step further. These "weeds" found a place to grow and shine and be a thing of beauty in their own way. One day they were weeds, next day they became a wonder to my eyes. Doesn't this happern to us as humans? If we can just find the right place to grow freely and blossom we suddenly are transformed from a weed to a person of beauty. Once again perception changes and a weed is a pure gift to the eye. Help yourself and those around you to grow in a nurturing place and know they are "a person of beauty" and not just a weed.

Dig Deeper, Dig Deeper

Two souls searching, two souls working in the Labyrinth. Each one looking for truths and a path to peace. As we worked to clean up the Labyrinth from it’s long winter hibernation, we began to dig up a Poke Berry root. “I know the birds like this weed, but it becomes unruly and takes over the path”, I said. So we began to dig deeper and deeper. Anyone who is familiar with this wild specimen knows that the root is bigger and runs deeper than a sweet potato. We began each with a shovel, taking turns to move the dirt and unearth this monstrous root.

“Do you see the symbollogy of what we are doing right now”, I asked.

We dug and hacked and finally cut it out, then filled the hole back up with earth and planted another plant in it’s place. As the day progressed we chatted about this and that and our lives. Each one unearthing childhood memories and experiences. Each one digging up perceptions of what we wanted in a relationship. Slowly changing perceptions of what is important in our lives.

As I lay in bed it all came to me the beauty of the day, the beauty of the experience and what it all meant to me. It reminded me of what my Angel would say, “Dig deeper, dig deeper.” So many layers of perception, so many chances for new perceptions of life.

Joan

If you would like to adopt a part of this Labyrinth and come out and work,

I would love you forever! Just give me a call 410 635 3000