The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Your Year of the Open Hand. This is the year your care stops trying to fix and starts trying to free, and the difference shows up in your face before you even notice the change. In spring, you say the exact right thing to someone who needed it, and you say it lightly, with no string attached to how they take it. By midsummer, a relationship you'd been managing softens into something easier the moment you loosen your grip. I love how this year teaches you the lightest touch holds the most. The people you love begin telling you that talking to you feels different now, roomier, kinder. Trust the words that arrive on their own, and let the rest go unfinished. The year ahead rewards the care that asks for nothing back.