The change, transitions, and flux of our lives and of our planet are reality. To fight to deny this inevitability of this leads to the frustration of wanting things to stay the same or perhaps to get better. But the reality is that we are in-between places; the river is continually flowing.
These in between places are liminal spaces, and this blog is dedicated to my exploration of those spaces and figuring out how we can find the beauty in and the peace of those spaces.
This past weekend on one of those glorious sunny November days, my son and I had planned a walk along the Beltline rail trail in mid-town Toronto, to go visit the Evergreen Brickworks, a former brick factory along the Don River, repurposed as a community environmental centre and public space. Upon entry, it quickly…
One winter break, while in university, I was working in a long-term care facility painting the newly installed doors to help pay for my education. At the time long-term care facilities were scary for me. But something happened. I got to know the residents, their names, their habits, and my presence became part of their…
From Caitlyn MacInnis’s Instagram account: “I play Cur, and I can’t wait for you to meet her/him/them LOL.” Seeing non-binary representation in a play is still something that is not that…
The end of the road as “queer space” This blog post captures my thoughts I had while walking the littoral zone…
Am I part of the problem? After spending most of the last month travelling both in Canada and the UK, I can start to understand why many countries in Europe are turning against tourism. Is tourism of any kind sustainable, let alone the mass tourism of cruise ships, bus tours, and wall to wall all…
My morning hike on the eve of the winter solstice begins just as the sun emerges above the horizon at 7: 53 am and by the time I arrive home it feels like the day is fully here and just as quickly shortly before 5:00 pm, the sun is gone on the shortest day of…
In June of this year, I consciously stepped into a liminal space. Retirement does not seem at first blush to be liminal as it represents the end of a working career, one that is romanticized by popular culture as an end goal of doing all the right things. You have arrived at the right place….