Humans flourish when we expose ourselves to diverse experience: our worldview expands when we live, learn, and work in diverse communities; our digestion works better when we eat a wide variety of food; our bodies are more balanced when we move in lots of different ways; and our spirits are lifted when we lay our eyes on fresh landscapes.
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I spent last Saturday helping my dear friend Suzanne Morgan build a meditation labyrinth at her West Virginia yoga and healing center, Moon Meadows Farm. A group of us gathered on the hottest day of the year, hydrated and sunscreened, and set to work. We carted, lugged, lifted, placed, and blessed over 2,000 rocks in a 96-foot spiral path that sits in a meadow's clearing at the edge of a tree line in the Shenandoah Valley. The Blue Ridge mountains rose gloriously in the distance, reminding us where those rocks were born.
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