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When I think about the ways that I have been called to the gates of life and death in this lifetime, I often come back to those acute and powerful encounters with the arbitrary and bewildering nature of death and the complex landscape of grief that surrounds it.

Recently, a thought occurred to me as I was finishing a visit with someone navigating a serious health challenge. Later that day, I was preparing for a conversation with a couple I am marrying and something clicked. I am drawn to the thresholds of life. From the thresholds of social change and justice work, to the thresholds of weddings and marriage, to the thresholds of illness, trauma, and loss that I have accompanied in hospitals, my life’s work has always been about walki