Intelligent Frugality and Liminality - Part Three

If you live in a small space, you may be well aware of the problems related to inadequate room for storage.

While intelligent frugality will always be associated with continuity, liminality will always be associated with change.

Projects are associated with liminality.

You may or may not have participated in any of the discussions in the sitting room here.

You may or may not have noticed the notes for you on the shelf in the little library.

You may or may not have sought a temporary or permanent virtual residence in this digital vicinity.

What are the current transitions you are experiencing?

How do you know you do not mistake liminality for limerence?

You may or may not have offered to help in the kitchens here, or the garden, the attic or the administrative work shed.

Do you consider the development of good cultures to be projects?

Do you consider the maintenance of good cultures to be ongoing activities?

By definition, human communities are inhabited by people familiar with each other quite well, especially in comparison to strangers.

Many community problems, and societal problems more widely, are associated with impulsiveness, including in relation to community organisations, charities and social groups.

Do you consider conflict to be liminal?

Do you usually associate the media with virtual liminality?

Why have you been invited to experience Frugality Cottage? 

Who invited you here?

Who has placed the notices on this noticeboard for you to interpret?

Have you already experienced part one in this series of introductions?

If not, please catch up as quickly as possible.

There is a sense of urgency here at present.

Do you usually associate liminality with interviews?

Do you usually associate greetings and goodbyes with liminality?

Do you consider openings and closings to be liminal?

Have you already experienced part two in this series of introductions?

If not, please catch up as quickly as possible.

Do you consider all conscious learning to be liminal?

Do you often feel ambiguous about your own feelings or otherwise confused about them?

Do you usually associate the ambiguous with the liminal?

Do you usually associate confusion with the liminal?

Do you usually associate the marginal with the liminal? 

Do you usually associate attics with high culture?

Do you usually associate cellars with low culture?

Do you usually associate virtual cottages with liminality and other transformational experiences?

Have you already experienced at least a few of the other introductions here?

If not, please catch up as quickly as possible.

 

• The Cottage and Time
• The Cottage and Peace
• The Cottage and Freedom
• The Cottage and Simplicity
• The Cottage and the Key

 

What do you already know about Frugality Cottage and its garden?

• The Cottage Garden - Part One
• The Cottage Garden - Part Two

• The Cottage Itself - Part One
• The Cottage Itself - Part Two

 

What do you know about the workshops conducted here? 

• The Cottage and Industries - Part One
• The Cottage and Industries - Part Two
• The Cottage and Industries - Part Three
• The Cottage and Industries - Part Four

• The Cottage and Creativity - Part One
• The Cottage and Creativity - Part Two
• The Cottage and Creativity - Part Three
• The Cottage and Creativity - Part Four

• The Cottage and Kindness - Part One
• The Cottage and Kindness - Part Two
• The Cottage and Kindness - Part Three
• The Cottage and Kindness - Part Four

 

Have you attended any of the creative workshops here?

The Cottage and Competence 

Do you usually associate births, marriages and deaths with liminality?

Do you usually associate liminality and the liminal with the sacred?

The liminal may or may not be experienced as the sublime at any particular moment.

 

Yet the liminal is always transitional.

 

It may involve a change from the traditional to the modern.

 

It may involve a change from the modern to the timeless.

 

It may involve a wide variety of changes.

 

Yet the liminal always involves the process of change itself.

 

It exists in and as a boundary, an edge, in a time and place of uncertainty.

 

It is where the known and unknown mingle.

 

It is where patterns meet chaos, night meets day, and sleep meet awakening.