We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
Marie Curie
Your Year of Asking Because You Care. This is the year your curiosity stops feeling like a quirk and starts feeling like a gift you're giving on purpose. You ask the question no one else thought to ask, and a door swings open in a conversation that had been circling for months. Somewhere around midsummer, a project you lean into fully earns your full attention, and your questions shape what it becomes. When something arrives that doesn't fit, you say so cleanly. No apology, no long explanation. Just the clear no that frees both of you. That clarity is its own form of care. By the time the leaves turn, the people you've chosen to stay curious about know they have been loved well, the rare kind of loved, which means actually seen.