I was inspired by this word at the recent CQFA meeting. While there is some standard imagery, there is also the metaphors that go with the word.
What is your crossroads? Are you at a crossroads in your life? Do you remember a crossroad in your life? What happened when you took the path? Did you go back and take the other path? Do you with you had?
At the crossroads
Crossroads, the first green-certified building on Cal’s campus and the nation’s first organic certified kitchen on a college campus.
Crossroads is a world champion. a capella quartet rooted in—but certainly not limited to—the Barbershop genre.
The work of Crossroads is to dismantle systemic racism and build anti-racist multicultural diversity within institutions and communities.
Crossroads.js is a routing library inspired by URL Route/Dispatch utilities present on frameworks like Rails, Pyramid, Django, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, etc.
Britney Spears and Tamra Davis in Crossroads (2002)
Definition: a place where two or more roads cross; a road that crosses a main road or that runs across land between main roads
- A junction (road) where four roads meet
In arts, entertainment, and media
Film
- Cross Roads (film), a 1930 British film directed by Reginald Fogwell
- Crossroads (1937 film), a Chinese film starring Zhao Dan
- Crossroads (1942 film), a mystery film directed by Jack Conway
- Crossroads (1976 film), directed by Bruce Conner
- Crossroads (1986 film), starring Ralph Macchio
- Crossroads (2002 film), starring Britney Spears
Literature
- Cross Roads (novel), Christian fiction by William Paul Young
- Crossroads (comics), a five issue limited series from First Comics
- Crossroad (manga), a 2003 seven volume manga series
- Crossroads (series), a high fantasy series of books written by Kate Elliott
Music
Albums
- Cross Road, a 1994 compilation album by Bon Jovi
- Crossroads (1986 soundtrack)
- Crossroads (Eric Clapton album)
- Its sequel, Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies (box set)
- Crossroad (Masami Okui album), 2002
- Crossroads (Tracy Chapman album), or the title track
- Crossroads (mind.in.a.box album), 2007
- Crossroads (Sylver album), 2006
- Crossroad: Unplugged Live (Calvin Russell album), 2001
Songs
- “Cross Road” (song), by Mr. Children
- “Cross Road Blues“, a 1936 blues song by Robert Johnson, later recorded as “Crossroads” by many other musicians
- “Crossroad” (song), a 2010 Ayumi Hamasaki song
- “Crossroads”, a 2002 UK number one single from Blazin’ Squad based on the above
- “Crossroads”, a single by Avenged Sevenfold from Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough
- “Crossroads”, song by LL Cool J, from the album 14 Shots to the Dome
- “Crossroads”, Don McLean song, from American Pie
- “Tha Crossroads“, a 1996 Grammy Award winning single by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
- “Crossroads”, a 1991 single by Calvin Russell, composed by Sailor White
Other
- Crossroads (quartet), winner of the 2009 BHS international quartet championship
- Crossroads Guitar Festival, a three-day blues and rock concert arranged by Eric Clapton
Television
Series
- Crossroads (1955 TV series), an anthology centered on the lives of members of the clergy of various religious denominations
- Crossroads (1992 TV series)
- Crossroads (CMT TV series)
- Crossroads (soap opera), a British soap opera (1964–1988 and 2001–2003)
- Crossroads (VH1 TV series)
- America at a Crossroads, a PBS series about radical Islam and the second Gulf War
Episodes
- “Crossroads” (Band of Brothers), the fifth part of HBO’s Band of Brothers miniseries
- “Crossroads” (Battlestar Galactica), a 2007 episode of Battlestar Galactica
- “Crossroads” (Jericho episode), a 2006 episode of the CBS drama Jericho
- “Crossroads” (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
Other uses
- Crossroads Christian Communications, a media company and television network in Canada
Videogames
- Crossroads (video game), a 1987 chaotic shooter video game for the Commodore 64
In places
Australia
- Cross Road, Adelaide, road in Adelaide, Australia
- Crossroads Medieval Village, a medieval commune style project in NSW, Australia, near Yass
United States
Geography
- Cross Roads, Monroe County, Arkansas
- Cross Roads, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Delaware County
- Crossroads, Kansas City, a neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri
- Florence, Kentucky, formerly known as Crossroads
- Hustonville, Kentucky, formerly known as The Crossroads
- “The Crossroads”, an intersection of U.S. Route 61 and U.S. Route 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil
- Crossroads, George County, Mississippi
- Crossroads, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Stone County
- Cross Roads, Pennsylvania, a borough in York County
- Crossroads, Tennessee
- Crossroads, Wayne County, Tennessee
- Cross Roads, Texas, an incorporated town in Denton County
- Cross Roads, Henderson County, Texas, an unincorporated community
- Surry, Virginia, formerly Cross Roads
- Crossroads, Bellevue, Washington, a neighborhood
- Crossroads, Monongalia County, West Virginia
- Crossroads, Summers County, West Virginia
Nicknames
- Crossroads of America, an unofficial nickname for Indiana
Shopping malls
- Crossroads Center, a shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota
- Crossroads Mall (Boulder), a former shopping mall in Boulder, Colorado
- Crossroads Mall (Florida), a former shopping mall in the Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida Bay Area
- Crossroads Mall (Oklahoma), a shopping mall in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Crossroads Mall (Omaha), a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska
- Crossroads Center (Waterloo, IA), a shopping mall in Waterloo, Iowa
- Crossroads Plaza (North Carolina), a shopping district in Cary, North Carolina, near Raleigh
- The Crossroads (Portage, Michigan), a shopping mall in Portage, Michigan
Elsewhere
- Cross Roads, Jamaica a primarily commercial neighbourhood of Kingston, Jamaica
- Cross Roads, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Crossroads, Cape Town, South Africa
- Crossroads Centre, an addiction rehabilitation facility on Antigua in Antigua and Barbuda
- Crossroads Mall (Mumbai), the first shopping mall in Bombay, India – possibly the first such mall in India
- The Cross-roads, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional world of Middle-earth
In companies and organizations
- CrossRoads (clothing), a fashion brand
- American Crossroads, a non-profit political organization
- Crossroads Care, a charity for carers in England and Wales
- Crossroads Caring Scotland, a parallel charity in Scotland
- Crossroad Publishing Company, a New York-based publishing house
- Carrefour (English: Crossroads), an international supermarket chain founded in France
In other uses
- Crossroads (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language hieroglyph
- Crossroads (mythology), in folk magic, a location “between the worlds”
- Crossroads Movement, which gave rise to the International Churches of Christ
- Crossroads village, a term for a settlement situated at a crossroads
- Operation Crossroads, the 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll
See also
- Burial at cross-roads, a place where executed criminals and suicides were traditionally buried
- Crossroads Church (disambiguation)
- Crossroads School (disambiguation)
- Fork in the road (disambiguation)
Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and/or your blog.
We are also talking about this on Twitter. Use the hashtag #CPP
The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.