Born Today?

Your Year of the Single Lamp. This is the year you discover what you can do in a quiet room with enough time and your own particular way of seeing, and the answer delights even you. What you build in solitude this year has a quality that group efforts cannot manufacture, a specific gravity that other people notice without being able to name. A project you approach alone in the early months finds its shape by spring, and its shape is genuinely surprising. Come autumn, the showing-up on hard days, which you have always done without ceremony or applause, turns out to have been the whole secret. Someone sees the body of work and is stopped by it. You will carry this year's solitude lightly, like a lamp you lit yourself and can light again.