Threshold Times

Threshold Times

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Tending the Roots

Tending the Roots

Imagining a Way: the ninth thresholding skill

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Karen Hering
Oct 10, 2023
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wooden walkway crossing brown grasslands, both disappearing at the horizon.
Image by Dan Evensen from Pixabay
When we come to the edge
of our knowing, and the journey is
not yet over

and the road
we’ve been on disappears,
remember

it is only the map—
            not the world—
that has ended. 

So begins a poem of mine, “Where the Maps End,” about moving into the uncharted territories of threshold living. It names the way forwar…

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