You wanna fly, you got to give up the stuff that weighs you down.
Toni Morrison
Your Year of Testing the Ground. This is the year a principle you've held for a long time gets turned over in your hands, examined in the light, and found to be either worth keeping or quietly ready to be set down. One of them has been holding you in place without your full permission, and this is the year you notice. A conversation in spring opens something up, and the person you're talking with walks away thinking more clearly while you walk away lighter. By midsummer a project finds room to move because you stopped requiring it to fit an old shape. The year rewards every small act of reconsideration. What you release makes room. What remains is genuinely yours, and it carries you further than the whole weight ever could.