Mazes

1985 A.D
(After Divorce)

These mazes came about after a trip to Italy. Having been separated from my first wife for about nine months, and divorced for two months, I decided it was time to travel and see the world.

I proceeded to Roma, Firenze and then on to Paris. During the course of my travels I met a lovely young lady from Belgium who was teaching French in an Italian secondary school. I found that although doomed because of distance, it is still possible to become enamored after the trauma of divorce.

After returning from the trip refreshed and ready to get on with my life, I promptly fell and sprained my ankle so severely that I couldn't walk for six weeks. After reading about forty books, watching almost every show on television and putting my thoughts from that period on paper, I began to draw mazes as a way of expressing my feelings.

Drawing mazes was not new to me, although it had been about fifteen years since I had last drawn one. The time was right, and I was finding that I wasn't able to express my feeling and emotions to my satisfaction with the writing I was doing, so "Heart to Heart Mazes" came to be with the object being to find the path between the "Hearts" in each maze.

As in most love relationships there are twists, wrong turns, and frustration. Yet in the end as one Heart finds the other, there comes satisfaction.

A hint: to help you make it through the mazes I suggest that they be done with a variety of colored pencils. Each time a dead end is reached, return to the beginning and restart with a new color and at the end you will have made your own unique and colorful picture.

Steven J. Natanson

1985

Here I sit, again, after divorce number two, pen in hand creating a whole new set of mazes.

Steven J. Natanson

2005

"The term labyrinth is often used interchangeably with maze, but the modern scholars of the subject use a stricter definition. For them, a maze is a tour puzzle in the form of complex branching passage with choices of path and direction; while a single-path (unicursal) labyrinth has only a single Eulerian path to the center. A labyrinth has an unambiguous through-route to the center and back and is not designed to be difficult to navigate."

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RELATIONSHIP:

An interpersonal relationship is a relatively long-term association between two or more people.

An intimate relationship is a particularly close interpersonal relationship.

I liken my mazes to a relationship.

In each relationship there are times when each individual must assert themselves to adhere to their core beliefs. If one suppresses their core belief, they cease to be who they are and the relationship is doomed. As well, if they cease to live by their core values they cease to be who we entered into the relationship with, again the relationship is doomed.

My mazes have twists and turns. Times when you will be faced with a choice of paths. Times when you will have to seek out a new path, and if you are persistent, you will eventually find your way from Heart to Heart.

The PROS: (of a relationship with my mazes)

They will not talk back

They will not leave the toilet seat up

They will not mess up the newspaper before you get to read it.

You can shove them in a drawer and come back to them, when and if you want to. (Try shoving your significant other in a drawer.)

The CONS:

They will not give you a massage.

They will not bring you the paper in the morning.

They will not take out the trash.