Labyrinth at Tucson Medical Center Hospice
Tucson, Arizona, United States
At Tucson Medical Center's hospice campus, a healing labyrinth is built for end-of-life and grief walking, the most tender branch of the hospital-labyrinth practice.
At Tucson Medical Center's hospice campus, a healing labyrinth is built for end-of-life and grief walking, the most tender branch of the hospital-labyrinth practice. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a classical Man in the Maze design; installed October 19, 2010.
Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.
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