Borders
Borders Have you ever made a puzzle starting from the middle of the picture and making your way to the outside? Probably not your first choice of strategy. But, why? Why do we typically separate the edge pieces from the middle ones? Now, there may be times when you find middle pieces that fit together and you can begin to see part of the bigger picture as it was intended, but we usually don't start with the middle alone. Most people I have met always begin a puzzle by completing the borders first and then begin piecing together the rest of the picture. There is something strategic about this. Something about order, wholeness, clarity, safety; about needing a defined starting point, a finishing point, and a better vision of where the puzzle is taking us. Without the borders, the puzzle is incomplete. No borders means that the picture could keep on going (which in some cases can be exciting!); that the creator of the puzzle has free reign to roam outside of those otherwise i...