Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Cancer season.
The function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.
Toni Morrison
Your Year of the Work That Speaks. This is the year you stop offering explanations and let what you have made do the talking for you. Something you have been building quietly, in the way your hands know before your mind catches up, finds its full shape this year, and the people who were always going to love it finally find their way to it. A project you were almost too close to see clearly opens up in August and shows you what it has actually become. Someone you respect looks at what you have done and says the specific thing you needed to hear. By winter, a creative practice you trusted without being able to justify it has grown its own roots. Your body has known this work was right all along. Now let the year widen the room around it.