The artist exists in relation to society. You cannot escape it. You can ignore it, but it will find you. The only choice is whether you will engage with it consciously or unconsciously.
Wole Soyinka
Your Year of Holding the Room. This is the year the thing you have always done instinctively becomes a deliberate practice, and the difference in results is immediate and obvious. A habit you built slowly, almost without meaning to, reveals its real shape in February, when you see what it has actually been building toward. By spring, a situation that needed someone willing to stand in the difficult center falls to you, and you stand there with a clarity that surprises even you. Someone in your orbit watches how you hold it and decides to start building something of their own. The middle is the most deliberate place in the room. This year you know it as a skill, and you use it with full intention.