The first word that came to mind when Google prompted me to name this blog was "crossroads." It seems like such an appropriate word to describe my life - not just at this given moment, but at any given moment. I've learned to thrive on, and even enjoy, change. I consider it a survival technique.
But I quickly decided I couldn't use "Crossroads" - too evocative of a certain SuperPAC with which I vehemently disagree. Nexus had recently come up in conversation (what IS the plural - nexi?) but it reminded me too much of a certain legal search engine that I used to have to use quite often as a junior associate in a law firm.
Then the very neat phrase "Turning Point" popped into my head. Singular, not plural. I realized that, to me, every single day is a turning point. Daily decisions and actions (or indecisions and inaction) play a vital role in the flow of change in my life, no matter how seemingly consequential (wait for it... or inconsequential) they may be.
That was yesterday. Today I have seen the phrase "turning point" (singular, not plural) in at least two mass media articles about the impact of the NYPD raid on, and clearing of, the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park this morning. Will the raid be a turning point for OWS? No question about it. Will it be a positive or negative change? Oh, I definitely think positive. The genie is out of the bottle.
And every day is a turning point.
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