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Moving Through Liminal Time

March 28, 2025 ~ joanvinallcox ~ 1 Comment

Crossposted – https://joanvinallcox.substack.com/p/moving-through-liminal-time

Standing on a threshold 
with the past pulling away,
while facing a dark
pathless space
is daunting.

Can I hope
the pathway
I was trying to shape
will find my heart
if I close my eyes and trust?
Green shoots emerging from fall's debris

Liminal Time Is . . .

July 5, 2023 ~ joanvinallcox ~ Leave a comment
a carving of a confused human
Like a secret garden
revealed
while searching beneath 
overgrowth

Like a song
hummed
under dialogue
in a yet unscripted movie,.

Like a heart’s whisper
in the silence
of an empty room
behind an unlocked door.

Drifting: A Liminal Space

May 4, 2020May 7, 2020 ~ joanvinallcox ~ Leave a comment
I find myself
lost again
struggling for 
breath
in a closed up
car,
riding on a road
not yet built
invisible
between two cities
The undrawn 
map - (and breath)
take shape
in the dark,
outlined
by the headlights.
The search party 
won't come
until I
am found

from Mapping The Wilderness

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Joan Vinall-Cox, Ph.D. is a lifelong learner, retired communications professor, and rabid reader who has taught in both the college and university systems. Her Ph.D., in 2004 was an Autoethnographic Arts-Based Narrative Inquiry focused on moving from technophobia to technophilia. She is a widow from a pretty happy marriage and a mother to a strong and kind daughter. Her interests include Centering Prayer, Multiple Intelligences, Attention Deficit Disorder and its connection to creativity, Jung, Campbell’s Monomyth, and Arts-Based Narrative Inquiry.

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