Notes On Getting Lost The Corn Maze at At’l Do Farms by Eric Simpson
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have spent most of my life actively avoiding being lost. I suppose it’s a desire to know where I am, and where I stand on things. I want to have thing figured out, and I want to know where I am going with life. I can imagine that many people, like myself, avoid being lost in this way. It’s an uncomfortable feeling not knowing where you are. Perhaps being lost goes against a
2020’s maze design celebrating 20 years of sharing their love of farming and sharing their mazes with families all over the Lone Star State and beyond.
deep human nature that disrupts that thing we call “progress.” There is a place where people go to get actively lost—lost with purpose that is. It exists outside the small town of Shallowater, Texas, just 5 miles north of Lubbock, on an 80-acre plot of land called At’l Do Farms. Every fall, thousands of people come out to get lost in a ten-acre field of corn. They meander, back track, turn around, and “trial and error”
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