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🌤️ The First Threshold
There’s something interesting that happens once you start paying attention to these in‑between moments. You begin to notice that they aren’t rare at all. They’re everywhere. Tucked into the corners of the day like loose change you didn’t realize you were carrying. The pause before you answer a question. The breath before you stand up. The flicker of hesitation before you say yes… or no.
Once you see them, you can’t unsee them. And that’s where this first threshold begins.
Cherishing Moments
In our fast-paced lives, it’s essential to take a step back and cherish the moments that truly matter. These moments are often the ones that shape our memories and define our experiences.
For me, it started with a simple realization: these moments aren’t passive. They’re not empty. They’re not the absence of action; they’re the birthplace of it. They’re the quiet workshop where the mind rearranges itself before the body catches up.
Most of the time, we treat these moments like dead air. But if you ‘live’ them instead, and you do so long enough, you start to feel that subtle undertone of the shift happening underneath your skin…figuratively, of course. You will know that you’re at a Nexis of sorts. You’ll make sounder decisions and no, it doesn’t leave you suspended for minutes or even seconds, you think at the speed of light, at least. You don’t have to drum up a thought. It’s just there. Honor it!
I didn’t always notice these moments. I used to barrel through the day like a man late for a train, convinced that momentum was the same thing as progress. But the older I get, the more I realize that the hinge points, the real ones, aren’t loud. They don’t announce themselves. They whisper. And if you’re not listening, you miss the whole thing. I still barrel through them when I’m agitated.
Anyway, this first threshold is about that whisper.
It’s about the moment when something inside you leans forward before you do. When your thoughts step through the doorway a half‑second before your feet follow. When you feel the internal click, subtle, almost imperceptible, that says, “Alright. It’s time.”
Sometimes it’s a decision. Sometimes it’s a memory resurfacing. Sometimes it’s nothing more than the body sensing change before the mind has words for it.
It’s always at the beginning, though, and it always occurs in the blink of an eye.
In the images I’m sharing today, that beginning is almost too quiet for the eye to see. A hand hovering near a doorknob. A body paused mid‑turn. Light shifting across a wall like it’s waiting for someone to notice. It isn’t dramatic or staged, it’s just the truth of a moment that hasn’t decided what it wants to become yet. Imagine it happening in real time. If you weren’t watching, you missed it.
That’s the threshold before the moment. And if you’re anything like me, you’ve stood in that place more times than you can count, sometimes without even realizing it. Maybe you’re standing in one right now.
Over the next few posts, I’ll explore these thresholds one by one. Some will be personal. Some will be observational. Some will be images that caught me off guard because they revealed something I didn’t know I was thinking. But all of them will come from that same quiet place, the moment before the moment.
For now, consider this the first step across the line. The first held breath. The first shift in the light.
The first threshold…it’s lighted. You’ve had time to think about it. Why not walk through?
Sometimes I think the world would make a little more sense if we all learned to honor these pauses instead of bulldozing through them. They’re not interruptions; they’re invitations. A chance to catch the shift before it becomes the story. So, as you move through your day, notice the breath before the step, the hesitation before the choice, the flicker of awareness before the world pulls you forward again.
That’s where the directions live, in the moment before the moment. I believe that if you grasp this concept, and truly give it a go, you’ll find some interesting truths about yourself. You’ll also find that you’re pretty damn sharp al of a sudden. So much more will fall into place for you.
And tomorrow, we’ll take the first step across that threshold together.
The next article in the series: The Moments in Between III
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