“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.”
―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What thought and planning are you putting into a threshold you see in your life?
For those of us in cold climates, winter is the time when color is hard to find, and everything tends to fade to a wash of gray. But the lack of color invites us to find beauty in texture and form, in shapes we might fail to notice in more lush times of year.
What subtle beauty do you see around you?
“We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?”
―Joseph B. Wirthlin
What new discovery excites you?
A doorway could welcome you in out of the elements—or you could be welcomed in to the elements themselves.
Where would you like to feel comfortable that still feels unfamiliar to you?
“Poetry is more a threshold than a path.”
―Seamus Heaney
What door of insight has poetry opened for you?
