Tripminality – Gabrielle Malfatti
Consecutive, circular, threshold crossings make me wonder if we’ll ever get out of the spiral this planetary pause became for some of us.
The table between goodbye and hello – Nicole Conner
Our neighbours had set a table for us and bid us welcome. Their table was like an anchor in the restless, and often stormy, oceans of change and transition.
Don’t Mourn the Past
Should you mourn the past? To lament for what might have been. Remembering the pathways unpursued. The could’ve, would’ve, and should’ve of life’s potentialities. Piecing together the riddles of before. Unsolvable they remain, puzzles unexplored. What do you see when you look back? Lost opportunities you’ll never have again. Despairing over what might have been. A step…
For a New beginning – John O’Donahue
FOR A NEW BEGINNING In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long time it has watched your desire, Feeling the emptiness growing inside you, Noticing how you willed yourself on, Still unable to leave…
Reaching out in shared Chaos
I participate in a joint program with Ukraine and the United States that trains and certifies Ukrainian mental health professionals to address the vast trauma of war and its aftermath. The certificate program includes extensive teaching, learning, training, and supervision. American and Ukrainian mental health academics and professionals act as teachers and mentors. This takes…
Liminal Essay Contest for University Students
The Liminal Scholarship of $500 will be awarded to the winner of a 700-1000 word essay on some aspect of liminality found in the short story “The Stretch Motel” in S.K Kruse’s Tales from the Liminal. Students must be enrolled in an undergraduate program in an accredited university for the 2023-24 academic year. The submission…

Resilience in Liminal Space – Laura Gaines
Laura Gaines is a clinical social worker specializing in resilience, trauma informed care and mental wellness. She provides training, coaching and consultation for helping professionals. She writes a weekly blog about resilience at LearnModelTeach.com. Resilience in Liminal Space by Laura Gaines I am going to make this work. I will focus on the positive. If…
Combat or Humility in Multifaith Liminality? John W. Morehead
John M. Morehead is the Director of Multifaith Matters and He is the co-editor and contributing author for A Charitable Orthopathy: Christian Perspectives on Emotions in Multifaith Engagement, and Encountering New Religious Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach, and the editor of Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue. In this liminal month…
The Bones of Liminality – Lisa Withrow
Lisa Withrow is a Gestalt and Positive Intelligence coach, leadership consultant, and researcher-writer in the area of liminality and conflict. She has published 5 books and contributed to 6 others. Waiting. In-between space can be chaotic, serene, frenzied, calm, anxiety-producing, hope-filled, or perhaps all of the above. Underlying each of these characteristics is the foundational…
Almost but not Quite – Nita Gilger
Nita Gilger is the minister for congregational care at University Christian Church, Ft. Worth, Texas, and a frequent contributor to Open Horizons Magazine for Process Theology. It was not finished but it floated. It was almost ready but not quite. I had offered to help sand and put on the last coat of epoxy on…
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