On midlife vulnerability and custard

Where’s the fucking zest?

Group IV, No 7, The Ten Largest, Adulthood, Hilma af Klint, 1907

“There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.” Margaret Mead

I just went to the post office, my first outing in weeks after a long, miserable (supposedly non-Covid) illness. Driving there, I felt like a naked baby bird, possibly not yet…