Attachment is the foundation of all development and of all health.
John Bowlby
Your Year of Knowing the Difference. This is the year you get very clear on which version of yourself is actually standing in the room and which version is the one doing all the apologizing and adjusting and waiting to see. Turns out the real one is considerably better company. A project in late spring asks for the you who just shows up, and that you arrives reliably, even on the days that feel like dragging. Someone in your life notices the showing-up before you do, and says so out loud, and the words land. By November, a connection that started as professional becomes something you'd fight to keep because it has grown into the kind of attachment worth tending. The negotiations quiet down. What remains is steadier, truer, and yours to carry into the next season without apology.