You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Your Year of Standing in Your Own Shape. This is the year the difference between fitting in and actually belonging becomes impossible to ignore, and you stop pretending there is no difference. Something you have been building slowly, at your own pace, in your own manner, finds completion in a form that looks nothing like the template, and that is exactly what makes it good. A room you have been performing your way through reveals, around midsummer, that it never needed your performance. Put it down. By autumn, two or three people who matter are leaning toward the version of you that stopped adjusting, and the ease of that is new and a little electric. The year does not ask you to explain your architecture. It asks you to live in it.