The Red Shoes

What if you could enter a path without knowing exactly what you were looking for, and trust that the walking itself might be enough? For thousands of years, people have created labyrinths as spaces for contemplation, ritual, pilgrimage, and reflection. Labyrinth patterns appear across cultures and centuries, with designs found on ancient pottery, tablets, and tiles dating back thousands of years. Over time, the labyrinth became especially associated with pilgrimage and contem

Have you ever noticed the beautiful garden on the front lawn of The Red Shoes? Filled with native plants, the garden is more than a beautiful landscape. It is a living ecosystem, offering food and shelter to pollinators and wildlife while supporting the unique ecology of South Louisiana. And, like so much of what happens at The Red Shoes, it invites us to slow down, pay attention, and consider our relationship with the world around us. That relationship is at the heart of our

There are moments in life when we recognize that the path we have been following no longer feels entirely our own. Sometimes that realization arrives quietly. Sometimes it comes through loss, transition, longing, or the persistent sense that there is something within us asking to be heard. For Chris Kisling, that longing began early. As a younger person, Chris describes himself as shy, sensitive, introverted, deeply religious, a self-described “geek and band dork,” and someon