Born Today?

Your Year of Building With Both Eyes Open. This is the year you stop separating the practical from the meaningful, because this year they move together. A conversation you nearly skipped, maybe in February, maybe on a random Tuesday afternoon, hands you a frame you did not have before, and the work you were already doing looks completely different from inside it. You find yourself building the same structures you always built, but now you know exactly what they are for, and that knowing changes the quality of every hour spent on them. By late summer, someone younger than you watches how you go about it, and they understand something without being told. What you build this year carries forward further than you will see. Begin the next right thing with that in mind.