In between, liminal, that space where we wait.
Between moments; events, results, action, no action.

There are predictable thresholds in our lives, when we move from one life-stage to another—when beloved children begin school, when we downsize from a house to an apartment, when we begin a new career or class.

There are threshold moments in each of our lives. Moments when the past that lies behind us seems present and real.

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There is a passage from the Sonnets to Orpheus, by Rainer Maria Rilke, that has given me inspiration when confronted by the need to change.

Threshold is an interesting word. As a maintenance clerk I immediately thought of the thing at the bottom of a doorway.