09/25/2026
Current thoughts
Transitions.
These fall feelings.
I’ve been in a funny and exciting place - facing a lot of change lately.
Yesterday,
I was explaining to a good human how I was in like 14 liminal spaces at once.
And she told me a story about how during labor
(Guh I always want the labor story)
there is a moment where the mother is dilated to 7 cm. And at this moment she says things like “I want to die!” “I can’t do it!” This moment and these phrases are so common that when nurses hear them, they go to check or say “I think she’s at transition.”
Transition- the name of the moment when the body, the self, wants to give up before the last big push.
Where we want to give up.
Before we grow.
Before we birth.
I am at 7 cm with the things I am juggling.
Time to leap.
Time to be a bit foolish.
Time to shift
from the hypothetical
and planning
to the netless future.
Birth imminent.
What a fantastic metaphor for so many things that we birth as humans.
You and I.
Lives,
businesses
new selves…
Later,
I was recounting this to a customer and she asked “are you remembering to breathe?”
Shut up! I thought.
Oof.
Of course.
Labor and breath.
And one more thing to do.
Breathe.
I hope you are breathing into your transitions.
I hope we’re all growing together.
I am dreaming the nexts with you.
And an ask-
Dream mine with me.
I, for real, love you so.
And am ever, ever so grateful.
From the last long beams on the distant trees.
Kristofer.
