ABSTRACT
A GROUP OF SCHOLARS INTERESTED IN COLLABORATIVE/ NARRATIVE INQUIRY HAD GATHERED IN ROOM 407 to listen to Jane Speedy talking about her latest book Staring at the Park. Jane talked about how she had come to write/draw this work by setting down the fragments of her everyday life, as she had experienced/imagined it after having suffered a severe stroke. Disconnected experiences had seemed to blow about all around her. The fragments that make up this article consist of Jane’s call (Gale, 2014) and some of the responses to her writing/drawing that were evoked in the atmosphere of an ‘open narrative inquiry space.’ This text offers/ invites us not so much into a ‘stream of consciousness’ as to invite us across the threshold into a uniquely fragmented experience of life. But as Wyatt (2014) reminds us, thresholds are multiplicitous and always present. Like Wyatt, these authors ‘argue for scholarship that embraces the discomfort – the terror – of the threshold’ (p. 8).
