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DALLAS: Labyrinth brings new life to parish hall
For Carolyn Hewitt, the labyrinth is like a walk through life.
Hewitt, chairman of the labyrinth committee at St. Peter's, told the newspaper that she first came up with the idea to put a permanent labyrinth in the parish hall about a year ago.
"There was a great need to spruce up the parish hall, so I started brainstorming ideas," Hewitt said. "Before, it was carpet. A very worn, used carpet that needed some TLC."
Originally, Hewitt said she decided she wanted to put in a labyrinth because "it's an artistically pleasing design."
After a trip to St. Paul, Minnesota, where she went through labyrinth facilitator training with Lauren Artress, of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Hewitt said she became more interested.
Hewitt and a group of volunteers began tearing out the carpet a month and a half ago, according to the newspaper. The rest of the work for the labyrinth took about seven days to complete.
"It was actually a huge stencil that covered the area," Hewitt said. The concrete floor was stained with the design.
The labyrinth takes about 20 minutes to completely walk and end in the center.
"It's really in one sense, simulates life because you think you're going in one direction, then you turn around," Hewitt said. "When you walk out, you're walking back out to life."
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