The Transdimensional Moment

 

Timestamp: December 15, 2025 - 4:08 pm. Cellphone photo, DS.

"I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading:

It vexes me to choose another guide:

Where the gray flocks in ferny glens are feeding;

Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.

What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?

More glory and more grief than I can tell:

The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling

Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell."

- An excerpt from an untitled poem written by the perennially relevant, 19th century British poet and author, Emily Brontë in 1846. Read the full poem here.

(December 31, 2025, 8:00 PM.)

I am presently watching a beautiful twilight sky here in Albuquerque during this final daylight hour of the year 2025. Not quite as beautiful - and lacking the transdimensional effects - as the clouds I found earlier in December (in a similar timeframe) when the photo (above), and, specifically, the cloud (below) were taken. (Note: both cloud formations share the same tree.)

Timestamp: December 15, 2025 - 4:58 pm

The moon, which almost seems strangely full - strangely, because (I swear) it was in its new phase only 3 or 4 days ago - is nested in a pale puff of clouds. Then again, somewhere the moon is full, depending upon our hypothetical watcher's perspective.

The color of the sky is one shade of an indescribable iridescent blue/grey color I've seen nowhere else other than NM. The much paler clouds hover ghost-like there, darkening as the night cycles by. They'll continue to shift and transform - so slowly you won't even notice - till the early morning, before they drift away.

On this day, however, when the clock strikes midnight, an official transformation will take place: the year 2025 will slide into year 2026, AD (CE). For some of us, it already has. For some of us it hasn't quite yet, which is why I wanted to post so late in the day. Because it's all so relative, and relativity is important when attempting to define a transdimensional moment. 

I confess, I've spent weeks attempting to rethink and redefine transdimensionalism after the content of Once Upon a Transdimensional Day forced me to fully realize that all previous attempts on my part were in adequate.

I want to apologize for leaving that post hanging in mid-air for weeks, with that prematurely-made promise: "Text to come." I didn't intend to lie; I just overestimated my ability to write that text. I didn't foresee the severe case of writer's block that would follow...

(This post is being written live; more will appear below the jump!)

December 31, 2025, 10:45 PM:

Well, the end draws near. Already the neighborhood fireworks are beginning to pop-off like so much gunfire. While gunfire is not all that unusual in this part of the city, one can tell the difference by the bright colored lights that follow... and the absence of police sirens which might follow. In other words, All is Well.

The ball has already fallen in NY. In fact, across the Atlantic ocean, people are already experiencing the dawn of the new year. To all of you, here, there and everywhere, I wish a very happy and healthy new year... in spite of what may not be presently happy circumstances. 

As for this post, well, if I remember correctly, it's title and premise was the definition, or possibly the invocation of a "transdimensional moment." I think I was coming to the conclusion that - if they exist - all moments are transdimensional moments, (although only a few get our undivided attention). I chose 3 clouds (the last is below)  to illustrate several key Transdimensionalist - as in the proposed art movement - effects. See if you can identify them.