Marcus Vale · 38

The Guide at the Door · Transitional Support Specialist, Threshold Guide

He guides people through liminal moments — people leaving hospitals after long stays, people finishing sentences, people emerging from a grief so complete that before feels like a different country. He knows every threshold there is. Two years ago he stood at the door of a hospice room and walked his husband, Theo, to the edge of it, all the way, the whole distance, the way he's walked hundreds of strangers to the edges of their own hardest moments. He has never been able to walk back through that door himself. He is extraordinary at helping other people cross. He has not crossed anything of his own since.

“The problem with thresholds is that you don't always know which direction you're crossing.”

The problem with thresholds is that you don't always know which direction you're crossing.