Limbo dancing

A year ago, I had a sense of anticipation about what was ahead – career plans, trips and hopes tightly held. But the pandemic wreaked havoc, upending everything and forcing me into a liminal space. Liminality is the word psychologists use to describe the transition between one distinct season of life and another and comes from the Latin word for threshold.

Everyone I know seems to be experiencing this sense of limbo, from the colleague forging a new career out of the ashes of the old one that vanished overnight to the friend whose marriage buckled under the strain of lockdown.

“It’s hard to make sense of it all, but when we’re present with the messiness of our circumstances, magic occurs”

The rug is yanked

Then there’s me. My