The Threshold Bookcast : Chapter 17 : Where Will You Be

[Christopher Stewart]

Chapter 17 : Where Will You Be

The central character of this week's instalment of The Threshold Series is Rahu Lüli, the young cenobite from Kõrgus.

At the beginning of the chapter, the teenager is getting ready to leave the monastery, and he ponders the events that have led him to believe that he has found the identity of the next spiritual leader of the remote community.

« As he finished putting his things in his backpack, the novice recalled how he had come to the decision. After what Kasulik Sõber had revealed, when he had climbed to the plateau where the solar panels were arrayed, the visions of the unknown lady had increased in frequency, and their details had become more precise. His original impressions had been confirmed. The woman in his glimpses neither had the physiognomy nor the skin pigmentation typical of the people of Kõrgus. Moreover, she was very pretty, and in fact her features starkly contrasted with her white hair, suggesting she was actually much older than what her vernal face led him to believe. And considering her clothing, she was clearly some sort of religious figure. »

Proceeding towards the gates of the cloister, the boy will encounter friends whose influence could very well make him reconsider his plans.

I hope you enjoy « Where Will You Be, » the seventeenth and penultimate episode of the first season of the Threshold Bookcast ! See you next week for the conclusion !

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On a background of environmental and financial crises, and religious influences intertwining with political manoeuvres to determine the fate of an overpopulated planet, The Threshold Series chronicles the saga of the Ovelian civilization, a society very similar to our own, as it heads towards one of the most dramatic chain of events of its history.

The first book, « 2206 : Window Onto A New World, » focuses on the end of the year 2206, which culminates on an important federal election that will be impacted by the discovery of an anomaly in the nearby outer space.

Each episode of The Threshold Bookcast consists in a complete chapter of the series, made available for free online reading.

For more details about the series and the bookcast, please see the introduction.

The previous chapters are available here :

• Chapter 1 : Homeworld
• Chapter 2 : Going For The One
• Chapter 3 : Togetherness
• Chapter 4 : Machine Messiah
• Chapter 5 : Space Oddity
• Chapter 6 : It Can Happen
• Chapter 7 : Giants Under The Sun
• Chapter 8 : Nous Sommes Du Soleil
• Chapter 9 : Careful With That Axe, Eugene
• Chapter 10 : South Side Of The Sky
• Chapter 11 : The Preacher The Teacher
• Chapter 12 : No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
• Chapter 13 : Keys To Ascension
• Chapter 14 : Silent Talking
• Chapter 15 : Tempus Fugit
• Chapter 16 : The Solid Time Of Change

[Christopher Stewart]

Outgrow : glad you resonate so much with the poem... many people have expressed similar reactions when i originally published it... personally, i consider it some of my best work...

you're welcome to share it, but please properly credit me as author, and also please include a link to one of my online profiles... my Tumblr blog for instance : http://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/1133226135/outgrow

equilibrium : nice photo and quote... it is similar to one of mine : growth comes from striving for the sun yet keeping one's roots in the ground...

many thanks and blessings to you Nicole ! ☼

Chris

[Nicole]

I found a beautiful picture with a blog talking about the perfect divine equilibrium... Here is the link if you wish to look at the picture :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oneinfocus/4544118166/

 

Blessing the Divine Balance within all of us ;;;;

[Nicole]

Can I share this poem 'Outgrow' (I love this title BTW), with my friends ? Of course, I can name you or write that the author is unknown ?

I truly feel very aligned with it :)

Thank you again :)

[Christopher Stewart]

thanks for your appreciation Nicole !

That which you can't abide
Embrace as if a friend
Once you two have allied
No thing will make you bend

That which you can't escape
Welcome as a teacher
You will never espouse
More talented lover

That which you won't challenge
Can't ever make you wise
But that which you surpass
In freedom makes you rise

That which you merely change
Comes back in a new guise
But that which you outgrow
Won't again meet your eyes

 

that poem is entitled « Outgrow » and is one of my personal favourites among my creations... it evokes bitter sweet memories of a time when wisdom and concision were necessities...

wishing us all bilateral divine equilibrium ! ✩

blessings,

Chris

[Nicole]

I truly am touched by the quote of the Unknown Author in the very beginning of Chapter 17....

So wise and concise on any relationship we may encounter, that finishes always divinely balanced for the both parts.... :)

'' That Which you can't abide, Embrace as if a Friend

Once you two have allied, No Thing will make you bend....... ''