This week's episode is the first in a three-part series about puzzles. My family and I love to do puzzles, and I think in many ways, they can serve as a metaphor for life - the borders we create, the pieces we include and attach together, and how everything fits.
In this first part of the series, I discuss my perspective on the border of the puzzles. As we build puzzles, most of the time, if we can recognize a spot or matching piece for the inside parts, they still just kind of float around, and don’t really have a home until we start with the outside. We have stacks, a bunch of stuff that doesn’t have a place, or the right place… We need a boundary… we need a defined, outer edge, that allows us to know where everything belongs and to help find where everything goes.
Boundaries keep us in check for our own well-being and that of our interactions with others.