Threshold's

No poetic prose, no fancy metaphors this time around. Sometimes life just comes at you too fast. Besides, we all understand that life is full of thresholds. New born to infancy to kid to child to puberty to teenager to 16 to 18 to 20 to 21 to college graduate to first job to married to home owner to first child to 30 to 40 and over the hill to 50 to 60 to 65 and retired to 70 and eyeing down the 50th anniversary to 75 to 80 and who knows from there. So putting a cliche with a threshold of life seems....well cliched.

But today is one of those in between thresholds bewteen the big thresholds. Pretty much we all share in the big thresholds, like the ones I mentioned above. But the mini-thresholds are usually reserved for you and possibly those directly involved with you and the situation. You know, like New Year's Day of 1996 and I knew that this would be the actual year where I turn 18. Or December 1st of 2001 and I knew this would be the actual month in the actual year I would be a college graduate. These little mini thresholds that mean a lot to you but most people it is just another day on the calendar that signifies flipping their calendars over to a new month. But for you it becomes more real, more legit if you will, it's going to happen and it is coming fast.

And so today is one of those days, because today marks the actual month that Grace Luella or Seth Andrew will "officially" enter the world. The due date is the 17th and the doctor will not let Michele go past the 24th. So this is it.

A mini-threshold in direct route to a major, life changing threshold that makes life the beauty and magic that it is.