Liminality

The six days between Christmas and New Year’s Day are a liminal time. It’s not quite the past year anymore, and it’s not quite the new one either. The holidays are over, almost. New Year’s Eve and the following day of recovery - New Year’s Day - are the bookends at an end and the starting shot at a beginning.

The final week of a year that is about to find itself fading in the rearview mirror is a time for reflection. We don’t need to make ourselves do it. We don’t need to set aside time or intentionality. We just, naturally, feel it. And we look back at the fading months and evaluate where we started and where we ended up. Then, finally, on the 31st, we ready ourselves for launch into the great unknown.

Let the past be the past, and the future now.

Happy New Year.