Why “On the Threshold”? The past year I’ve been exploring the concept of liminal space and how it plays out in our lives. Liminal comes from the Latin root word “limen” which means, you got it, THRESHOLD.
Liminal space often refers to an in-between period, when the known and familiar is behind us and the unknown is ahead of us. Who we’ll become is a mystery. Waiting in liminal space can be uncomfortable, or full of joyful anticipation. We tend to “visit” liminal space multiple times in our lives, whether we are aware of it or not. Enduring the pandemic has been an exercise in collective liminal space for just about everyone.
The tagline – Listen, See, Connect, Grow – I view as a cyclical process that helps us keep evolving. Deep listening is challenging with the distractions of modern life. As we learn to listen, especially to our inner voice, we unlearn and learn, and we learn to see with new eyes. To see the unseen, or what is hiding in plain sight. Listening and seeing leads us to connection, connecting with others on an authentic level, and with ourselves…our True Self (credit teachings from the Center for Action and Contemplation.) When we can integrate our inner and outer lives and be receptive to anything that softens our heart, we inevitably grow.
Starting this blog is a gift to myself as I turn 50. In January 2020, I began a book study The Artist’s Way, a “spiritual path to higher creativity.” I was feeling lost and blocked at the same time…mired uncomfortably in liminal space. The journey of morning pages on my couch every morning has led me to here. This blog is purely a creative outlet for me, as opposed to my travel blog Experiential Passage that I birthed in 2011. If my readers find any value in my writing, well, that would be the bow on the gift.
This goofy photo of me was taken by my cousin, Maggie, when I visited her in Seattle a few years ago. I found an article of mine published in Northwest Travel magazine!
