Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Leo season.
Every poem is a translation of itself.
Octavio Paz
Your Year of Being Actually Seen. This is the year you let someone look, and you stay still while they do, no performance queued, no best angle selected, just the real version standing there in good light. It turns out that version is the one people have been hoping for all along. A room you've been holding together without mentioning it gets held together again, and this time someone notices out loud, and the noticing fits. A project in the autumn finds you doing the thing you do so naturally you almost forgot to call it a skill. The year keeps asking for the unpolished take, the honest word, the face you actually have, and each time you give it, something opens. Trust what you find when the curtain stays up.