The teacher must have a passionate love of learning; otherwise he has no right to teach.
Gabriela Mistral
Your Year of the Necessary Ending. Something you have been doing out of habit, out of obligation, out of the quiet dread of stopping, will finish this year, and the finishing will feel like relief before it feels like anything else. A practice you built in its place, almost without deciding to, turns out to be the real thing. By spring, that small daily habit has a shape you recognize as yours. By late summer, it has become the ground you stand on, firm and unmistakably earned. What you let go of in the first half of the year is exactly what the second half no longer needs. You are a very good student of your own life, and this is a very good year to learn what you already know. Trust the ending. It teaches everything.