Eye - 12 May 2023
From Friendly labyrinths to An unusual missive
Friendly labyrinths
Eye’s foray into labyrinths and their uses (31 March) inspired readers to share snaps of Friendly paths.
Alice Curteis, of St Andrews Meeting, said: ‘I loved learning from Barbara Childs how to draw labyrinths. This morning I made this one from camellia flowers’ (see above).
John Lawson, one of the wardens of Pickering Meeting, shared the labyrinth in the Meeting’s garden (see below). It has been cut yearly for the past five or six years, ‘cut in late May, early June and disappears in the early autumn’.
John told Eye: ‘A simple sign on the Pickering Meeting House gate invites passers by to walk awhile in the Meeting house garden. There between Whitsun and the end of August they will find a freshly cut labyrinth…
‘Many local people, as well as Quakers, circle dancers, toddlers and tourists heading between the town’s steam train and early medieval castle take up the invitation. It is valued as a place for reflection, contemplation and prayer… the labyrinth is walked to the accompaniment of bees, butterflies, swifts and bats.’
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