I write about power because power shapes everything. How it is used, how it is resisted, how it is internalized—all of this determines how we live and who we become.
Nadine Gordimer
Your Year of the Thing Finally Seen. This is the year a long-obscured truth surfaces into plain light, and you are the one who names it first, clearly, without flinching. A conversation in the early months cracks something open, and the understanding you reach belongs entirely to you, earned through your particular way of sitting with what others walk past. By spring, that new seeing reshapes a relationship you had quietly filed under complicated, and the reshaping is a relief. A piece of work reaches deeper than you planned because you stopped protecting the reader from the real thing. You have always had the capacity to look directly at what is actually happening. This year, that capacity becomes generative, and the honesty you bring into the room becomes the reason the room moves forward.