ThroughLines may offer a path to understand who we are in the world and why that understanding matters. The adventure to discover one’s own or others’ ThroughLines requires a search for connections which appear as fragile threads running through a life: your life, my life, as we can come to recognize and identify them over time.
ThroughLines may be as mysterious and hidden as the songlines that thread their way across the Australian continent. They may be lines of migration or of pilgrimage that trace the movement of a people or a species. Or ThroughLines may be stories that run through the life of a people or an individual, in myth, in historical fact, in art and in artifact. And a ThroughLine may present itself as an idea, a theme, an attribute, or a concept that winds its way through a life. A ThroughLine traverses the barrier/frontier between worlds. It inhabits the inbetween, the bardo, the transitional.
You can’t always come at unraveling the mystery of ThroughLines directly. I have found that it’s a matter of noticing clues as they fall into my path, or as I trip over them when looking at something else. For instance: here is a clue I discovered a couple of years ago.
