September 2025 – Cody Spencer Photography

I had to read the dictionary definition to remind me, but I think “liminal” is the best word to describe my feelings right now.

liminal
adjective

1. occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

2.relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process.

I observe my wife transitioning into her new career, launching her own business.

My eldest daughter, about to start high school, my youngest about to change primary schools.

Even my day to day has become liminal in it’s nature.

Am I uncomfortable? Not really, but I think it elicits certain feelings depending on what it is I’m observing. It’s a complex mix of pride, grief, joy and love. Different dimensions of love.

I’ve written about this before, but I often find myself being drawn to recurring themes, places.

These images are for me, and the recurring themes I consider the poetry of my life.

This process of maintaining this little blog, documenting my images, I do this for me, because it helps me understand…..me.

Ten years ago, I posted this image. I previously would look up and would see the freedom of birds. I would yearn for that. The freedom to be free of this fuse burning out over my head.

But that was ten years ago I posted that photo. I recognise I’m different now.

Seeing these images of the gulls, fighting and squabbling in front of me from my most recent trip to the beach, it stirs different feelings in me.

I stand, I watch the mayhem unfold from a position of curiosity and in this moment, I see the rhyme of the visual poetry. It rhymes with my current day to day and who used to be.

I have a feeling wash over me, I feel removed. I am an observer.

And in this moment, I realise. I’m actually free.

Gratitude washes over me.

Month: September 2025

Liminal

Seagulls and Poetry.