Grey hair is proof you made it through a lot of seasons. Wear it like a badge.

Getting older is the outcome everybody is hoping for, even when it does not feel that way from inside. Every visible sign of time passing is the receipt for years that actually happened, with everything that was in them. The only way to avoid the evidence is to not get the years.

Notice when you are apologising for having aged, in how you talk or in what you hide. Try dropping one of those apologies this week. There is a particular steadiness in people who are not quietly at war with the calendar.