For those of you who may not yet know,
I've moved to a new Cyber Home!
Tales From The Labyrinth continues
~HERE~
www.lealabyrinth.com
Please come and join me!
I look forward
to sharing more adventures
and wondrous discoveries
with you along the path!
Having a labyrinth
at the John George Psychiatric Pavilion-
of the Alameda County Medical Center
in San Leandro, CA,
has been a long, heart felt desire of
their Occupational Therapy Manager,
Terri Daugherty, OTR/L
When Guy Qvistgaard
came on board as the
JGPP Hospital Administrator,
Terri's dream
became a reality...
I had the honor
and privilege to design
a one-of-a kind labyrinth
that fits into their existing courtyard
and grove of magnolia trees...
With pops of rainbows
for patients and staff
to pause upon
as they make their way
through the meandering path
to the spiral center...
this labyrinth
speaks to the path of healing
in mind, spirit, and in body...
It is a place for time
out of time...
a place to find peace
out of chaos,
and to touch into nature...
Many of the incredible staff at JGPP
assisted in making this labyrinth...
Before...
After...
Including my longtime
friend Dr. Joyce Moulden
who's help I could not have done without!
Check out Francesca's
innovative support
for the detailed taping after
I laid down the blue defining tape!
from our
"bend and snap"
to...
the paint beneath our feet...
This labyrinth
was a joy to create!
Photos taken by Joyce Moulden, Terri Daugherty,
and Lea Goode-Harris
Beneath this July full moon...
the Harry Potter characters come alive...
Watch out for
Bellatrix Lestrange...
Luna Lovegood...
and hope that Harry Potter
is around to
cast a patronus...
Even little witches
are out...
and about...
and those are NOT
ruby slippers!
Eleven days from today...
I get to pick up my boy pupster...
Here he is at three weeks...
And here he is at six weeks....
This little pup is an Aussiedoodle~
Australian Shepard dad and Poodle mom,
and will be eight weeks old
when I scoop him up into my arms...
And...
I can not wait to meet
Nancy, the heart and soul
of Doodlesville Farms!
Tales from the Labyrinth
just might have to become
Tales from the Dog...
Just joking...
but you get it right???
Homemade chocolate chip cookies...
fresh squeezed lemonade...
and faerie-god-daughters...
to share them with...
Inside and out...
this house has seen
one-hundred and two years...
of being US...
Happy Fourth
of July 2011!
I had the honor
to assist Jan & Mickey
design their backyard labyrinth...
From baren ground...
where Stella-dog
played with her dragon egg...
This three-circuit labyrinth...
is a path with heart...
in a heart shape...
Symbolizing
elements dear to this couple
and their family...
Loving installed by
landscaper and artist Antonio
and crew...
Noyo river stone mark the lines...
and TerraPave fills the paths,
all materials
including the underlying base,
from our local Wheeler Zamaroni Quarry.
was carefully set
and tamped into place...
every square inch of it...
with intent...
into...
this path of the heart...
On the longest day of the year
from my front porch and garden...
may beauty
warm your heart...
My dad...
is indeed a Goode Catch...
Dad's 3rd cousin,
Karen Goode Fitzsimons,
up in Portland, Oregon,
from the William Addison Goode's
side of the family,
2nd son of Daniel Boone Goode,
is holding one of Murphy-Goode's
latest marketing banners,
a big ole grizzly-bear just about
to catch a wild salmon...
All because of you dad...
and your Goode name...
Happy Father's Day!
I love you!
Photo by Karen's daughter Stephanie,
my third cousin- 1x removed...
One of these pups
will be coming home with me
in just thirty-seven days...
But who's counting?
And truth be told...
I want them all!
Dear Nancy
from Doodlesville,
you make my heart sing...
The theme
of windows around here
continues
with the delight of finding this picture
first thing this morning
from Denny Dyke,
founder of Circles In The Sand
and Sacred Journeys...
Denny says,
"thought you might like this pic -
a photographer took it
of his family in the labyrinth."
Oh I do Denny!
What joy it brings...
tp peer into this window in the sand
to the beauty you create!
This beautiful photo was taken by Eugene Johnson,
who's family is at the center!
Today...
has been a day
of miracles...
Love notes
keep appearing in this window...
while outside,
the tape and plastic sheeting,
peels away...
and sunlight pours into my home
and in to my heart
through those windows,
these eyes of my house
and it feels like a
rebirth...
How grateful
I am
for each one of you
who bless my life
in ways you could never,
ever,
even begin
to imagine!!!
A year ago
tonight...
Milt came home from his Boston trip
and my world forever tilted
then not knowing
that he would not be here tonight...
and now...
I find myself even deeper
within this chrysalis
and I know not myself...
a year later
with every window
of my house encased
in plastic sheeting
for the paint that will hopefully be applied
sans any February rain
this seventh day of June...
I am stripped,
turned inside out,
held oh so tight...
I can not see in
and I can not see out...
the forty-eight days
until I get my new pup
might as well be forty-eight years tonight...
or forty-eight light years,
past or present,
I do not know
if I would even show up
in one of Milt's death candles...
I feel so transparent
breathing into right now...
I can feel the tightness
of not knowing the boundaries of where my skin
ends and begins...
I have this new
body
free of the pain
these last few years bound me to...
and I am caught between
my love of changing
and the me that lived here with Milton...
for all I know now
is the freedom of
being
just me...
Sitting
beside the lake of glass,
reflecting that June 2nd
blue sky…
Sharing the cracks in our hearts
where we opened
to the unknown…
Letting each other
in, to the joy
of being
six and seven
thinking then
it was twelve…
Stepping together
into life
for three times seven
molding heart,
body and soul,
form shaping the formless
in the way
your intense
being melded with my
fierce tenacity
for plunges
down steep ravines
and pathways in the sky…
mirrored in the largeness of
your beautiful heart
that holds me still…
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