Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Cancer season.
The summer grass: all that remains of the warriors' dreams.
Matsuo Basho
Some of the things you do to keep yourself safe only reveal their actual shape when you have been doing them long enough to see the outline they make around your life. What looked like reasonable caution turns out to be a way of steering every conversation away from the thing that matters most. What felt like taking care of the people you love turns out to be a way of making sure they never have to make a choice you cannot live with. The year ahead is the one that asks you to look at the fence you have been building and decide whether it is keeping something out or keeping something in. Most of the time it is both, which means the question is not whether to tear it down but where to put the gate you have been afraid to cut.