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1429: Midlife Crisis by Jane Zwart

1429: Midlife Crisis by Jane Zwart

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

January 7, 20265m 40s

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Show Notes

Today’s poem is Midlife Crisis by Jane Zwart.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Midlife has upended everything I thought about aging. It’s not at all what I expected. Certainly, when I was a child, I thought of people in their forties as old, and now that I’m closer to 50 than 40, I laugh at that. I feel … young! I feel younger, in many ways, than I did ten years ago. I admire how today’s poem describes time, and what it feels like to reach the middle of one’s life only to be surprised at what you find.”


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