No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Your Year of the One True Thing. This is the year a single piece of information, maybe small, maybe long suspected, rearranges the room around you in the best possible way. Something you began before you felt ready, some project or practice or quiet private effort, finds the detail that was always missing from it, and suddenly the whole shape comes clear. A conversation in July hands you the word you didn't have. By late autumn, something you've been building in partial light steps into full view and holds. The beginning you were unsure about turns out to have been exactly the right beginning, started at exactly the right moment. You carry that knowing forward, and it makes the next beginning easier to start before you're ready again.