For reasons we do not understand, we have discovered that there are members of TLS who have email, but are not on TLS Forum.

This Forum is where TLS Members can talk with each other and share ideas and discoveries. If you are a TLS Member and do not have access to post on the General Forum, please email the TLS Forum Administrator to register you for this great benefit of being a member of TLS.

Forum Tip: Please click on the <Help> link at the top right-hand corner of the Forum Home Page. It is full of tips on how better to work this Forum. The most important tip - you can get the Forum to send you an email any time someone posts a new message on any given thread, or much better yet (and I would heartily advise each of you to do this), you can sign up to have InVision (the Forum software) send you an automatic email either immediately when a new posting has been made, or a daily or weekly Digest of all of the postings in the Forum(s) you are on.

I would encourage you to choose the Daily Digest. I suggest this because we have found that many members forget to check their Forum(s) for new activity, get out of the habit, and stop being an active participant in the discussions. These emails are excellent reminders of interesting things that are happening.

Of course when messages are of a more personal nature, you can send an email directly to the individual concerned, but the Forums are the primary way TLS Memebers can talk with each other and share new ideas.

If you are on more than one Forum, please sign up for this Daily Digest service for each one you are on.

See you on TLS Forum!

}:-)

Sig Lonegren
Forum Administrator, The Labyrinth Society

In This Issue - January 2008
Sent 02/07/2008

• TLS Welcomes New Members!
• TLS Forum News
• Labyrinth Market Update
• Video Project Update
• Spring Board Meeting 

The Labyrinth Society Newsletter is a quarterly online publication. We are always seeking new information to share with our members. If you have labyrinth-related updates, news items, anecdotes, or other information you would like to share, please email the TLS Publications Chair.

Dear Friends,

We hope you are enjoying the more frequent communications from TLS... we are thrilled by the response we've had to our recent request for new participants in the strategic planning process. Many projects take a long time to bring to fruition, so it is particularly heartening to feel energy and enthusiasm stirring as we look to the future of both the labyrinth and the society. Meanwhile, the website redesign is underway, and the World-Wide Labyrinth Locator and the TLS Labyrinth Market continue to thrive. We delight in hearing from labyrinth enthusiasts around the world; this connection is vital as the labyrinth continues to weave itself into hearts and communities around the globe.

Blessings, Kimberly

The TLS Spring Board Meeting has been scheduled for April 11-13, 2008. All members are welcome to attend this annual event and participate in discussions. The meeting will be held at the Carondelet Center, in St. Paul, MN. The center is located in the heart of the Twin Cities area, adjacent to the College of St. Catherine Campus. A large outdoor labyrinth graces the backyard lawn of this retreat center.

Carondelet Center
1890 Randolph Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55105

Tentative Meeting Schedule:

• Friday: Dinner at 5:00 PM, followed by the evening session starting around 7:00 PM.
• Saturday: Morning and afternoon sessions. An evening session will be held contingent on progress with the agenda.
• Sunday: Morning session. The meeting concludes at Noon.

If you wish to attend, please email Lisa Moriarty or call 651-439-8082 for additional details and arrangements.

Looking for canvas labyrinth makers, somebody to build a labyrinth for you, finger labyrinths, books or teaching resources?

With so many labyrinth related products and services, and from so many sources, it's often difficult to know where to start looking... The TLS Labyrinth Market website now provides a one-stop service to help you find that labyrinth! Listed by product and service categories, A-Z and by geographic location, the website now has advertisers from around the world, with a multitude of labyrinthine goodies on offer.

And it's easy to show your products and services on the TLS Labyrinth Market website - as a member, you are entitled to discounted listings, with links direct to your own website, or custom-built display pages to showcase your products - the choice is yours.

Gael Hancock, Project Coordinator, has announced a tentative timeline for completion of the TLS Video Project. The labyrinth projects to be featured in the video are sill open for selection, so please consider nominating yours or one with which you are familiar. For additional information on the TLS Video Project, as well as Selection Criteria information and an official Nomination Form, follow the above link.

Tentative Timeline for Completion:

• February 28, 2008:  Deadline for Nominations
• March 1 - April 30: Applications will be reviewed by the committee and three to five projects in each category will be chosen for interviews.
• May 1 - August 31: The Final projects will be chosen and filming will take place.
• September 1 - October 31: Final Editing

Thanks to an especially generous gift of $5,000 from TLS member, Kathy Ruyts, the Video Fund now totals $16,081. We're oh sooo close to the $20,000 goal! To help close the remaining gap, another member is offering a challenge grant pledging to match dollar for dollar all donations to the fund received by April 1, 2008.

If you are able to contribute to this fund, please indicate "Video Fund" on your check and mail to: The Labyrinth Society, PO Box 736, Trumansburg, NY 14886. Visa or MasterCard payments will be gratefully accepted by calling the Executive Director at (607)387-5863.

In each newsletter we share the name and location of new members who joined TLS during the period following the last newsletter and elected to be listed in the Member Directory. Since the number is so large, here listed are those from April through July 2007. The rest will be sent in installments over the coming weeks. 

• Alchemy Enterprises, Mia Corinha, Nahant, MA
• Stuart Anderson, Atlanta, GA
• Jean Ando, New York, NY
• Laurie Breeden, Phoenix, AZ
• Helen Anthony Bridges, SFO, Cockeysville, MD
• Jo Ann Jordan Elias, York, ME
• Cynthia Emerlye, S. Pomfret, VT
• Everyday Feng Shui Company, Donna Collins, Dallas, TX
• Cynthia Frey,Lovingston, VA
• Dominique Freymond, Schoenenberg, Switzerland
• Jo Grant, Derby Derbyshire, United Kingdom
• Gertie Graves, Campbellsville, KY
• Heart in the Park, Audrey Schmitz, Tonkawa, OK
• Susie Hillenbrand, Kerrs Creek, NSW, Australia
• Patricia Jarrett, Tucson,AZ
• SusanJones, Houston, TX
• Sandra Kynes, Portland, ME
• Barbara A. McCarthy, Prairieville, LA
• Mavis McClintock, Duncan, BC, Canada
• George McLellan, Russellville, AR
• Mercy Regional Medical Center, Diana McKenna, Durango, CO
• John Nichols, Fredericksburg, TX
• John Phelps, Round Rock, TX
• Cathy Proffitt, Burlington, NC
• Earlene B. Reavies, Winston-Salem, NC
• Laurel Reinhardt, PhD, Asheville, NC
• Margaret Robbins, San Antonio, TX
• John Sharp, Baltimore, MD
• JoAnnSmith,Lawrence, KS
• St. Andrew Catholic Community, Joseph Annese, Boulder City, NV
• Katresia Staggs, Dover, AR
• Jill Tardiff, Hoboken, NJ
• Ginny Whittmore, Yellville, AR

If you'd like to network with any of them, their contact information can be found by logging into the TLS Online Member Directory and searching on the name. Recall, please, that detailed MD User Instructions are in your Membership Handbook and are also conveniently available online within the MD itself.