Speaking of Change

Or, to put it another way, more rut stuff.
I must be in some in some kind of rut myself because I can't get the notion of ruts out of my mind. It's so easy to dig ourselves into them or fall into them and so incredibly difficult to climb out of them.
One reason for that difficulty is that getting out of the rut requires committment to change. Remember yesterday's Oregon Trial Ruts? Deep ruts don't require much thought or risk.
Change is all about risk.
And change is also all about understanding and tolerating liminal moments.
Those are the moments during which we cross over thresholds. Some of those thresholds are crossed almost on a daily basis and we don't think much about the risks involved.
Other thresholds seem to contain greater risk and so we think about them and sometimes conclude that the risk is too great.
Even our daily liminal moments can feel scary. For some of them we've created rituals. Think of the cultures with rituals for greeting the day and for ending the day. Ritualized life cycle events are methods of containing the fear of liminal moments -- of moments when we cross over a threshold.
Who knows what life on the other side of the threshold is like? And is it worth the risk of change.
Ruts help us stay in the paths of those who traveled before us.
We can choose to chart or own paths.
On the other hand, its okay to not make that choice.
However, sometimes when we find ourselves at the end of our wits, the only way we can step away from the edge to a safer place is to risk change.