A man who calls his kinsman to a feast does not do so to save him from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together it is to show our respect for our gods and our people.
Chinua Achebe
Your Year of Knowing Before You Know. Something in you has been reading the room, reading the work, reading the people you love, through sensation and instinct before thought ever catches up. This year that gift becomes conscious, finally. In the early months, a project you begin almost without a reason shows you, as it unfolds, exactly what it was for. By spring, your hands or your gut or the quiet sense that something is off in a room saves you a turn you would have regretted. And the people you gather around you this year, the ones you choose without quite being able to say why, turn out to be exactly right. You have always navigated by feel. This is the year you stop apologizing for it and start calling it what it is.