Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Cancer season.
The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.
E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
The friendships that go quiet do not always end, but they do ask you to carry something alone that you used to carry together. Sometimes the silence is about distance or busyness or the ordinary way people drift. Sometimes it is about something heavier that neither of you knows how to name without breaking what is left. You have been holding space for a conversation that may never come, and the holding itself has become a kind of loyalty. The year ahead will ask you to decide whether that loyalty is still serving the friendship or just serving your own need to keep something alive that wants to rest. Not every silence is a problem waiting to be solved, and not every problem is yours to solve alone.