And worst of all, the kind of liar that believes every word he says.
John Steinbeck
Your Year of Seeing Through the Story. This is the year your gift for holding the middle sharpens into something more precise, the way a lens finds focus and suddenly the room is crisp. A conversation sometime in the first quarter stops you mid-sentence, because what you hear underneath what someone is saying turns out to matter more than the surface of it, and you say so out loud. People around you start noticing that you catch the thing no one else caught. By spring a small renegotiation of how you carry one particular weight turns out to free up enormous room, and you fill that room with something better. The trusted person who has been talking at you rather than with you becomes easier to name and easier to set down gently. The year asks for your sharpest eye. Bring it.