Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Cancer season.
Her marble tears run down her marble face.A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.Who has no words to say.Whose shadow mind is burningas he sits watching her handsand thinks how rare!to see a Romantalkwith no gestures at all.
Anne Carson
The thing you have been considering taking on feels manageable when you first wake up, before the day has had time to remind you of all the ways it could go wrong. In those first minutes, the risk looks like something you could actually do, and the voice that usually catalogs the problems has not turned on yet. But as the hours accumulate, the same possibility that felt reasonable at seven in the morning feels reckless by noon, and impossible by evening. You have learned to trust the evening version of yourself, the one who knows better, who has seen how these things usually turn out. The year ahead asks whether that careful voice is protecting you from real danger or from the thing you actually want to try.