by Carol
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"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier!'"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There's been a lot of talk this week about words. My word for 2015 came to me in the middle of the night, as I lay in contemplation.
threshold
It's perfect. It has so many connotations that its making my head swim. Even the basic definitions are exciting - Listen:
- A stone to be crossed as you enter the new.
- The point at which a psychological or physical effect begins.
- The place or point of beginning.
- The point above which something which is true and can take place, and below which it is not true or cannot take place.
That last one is my favorite. Because I am on the path to finding my truth, and it feels closer all the time. It feels as if I am standing on that threshold. I have always loved art, and photography, and writing. I have always loved learning, and exploring new things. I have always loved coming together with the people I care about. I love meeting new people and hearing their truths.
And now I find myself photographing daily and writing about it here, and in my journals. I am engaged with art - on the threshold of discovering skills I never thought I had. I am working on series of photographs to express myself, and I am studying our senses, and how they enrich our lives.
And I am traveling, meeting people on-line and in person, whom I never would have found before I chose this path. I am stretching - reaching through to cross the thresholds that held me back before.
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"He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything."
Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
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- I feel that I am crossing that stone.
- The psychological effects are emerging.
- I am at a point of beginning.
- I am running towards something true.
I think I am standing at a threshold!
"Once you cross that threshold you will never be the same. That is a fact."
Kamal Rivikent, Live Your Truth
