Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Gemini season.
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.
Stephen King
Some words, once spoken, reshape the room they were said in and cannot be pulled back into the throat that released them. You know this feeling: the sentence that left your mouth and immediately became a fact other people have to live with, the truth that sounded different in your head than it did in the air between you and the person who heard it. What you said may have been accurate, but accuracy and timing do not always serve the same purpose. The conversation that follows belongs to a different category than the one you thought you were having when you opened your mouth. The year ahead asks you to sit with what you have already put into motion without trying to explain it away or soften its edges. Some things you say because they are true, and some things become true because you said them.