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I'm Maggie Smith, and this is the slowdown.

Midlife is a strange season.

I find myself both embracing the changes to my life, Midlife is a strange season.

I find myself both embracing the changes to my life and also grieving a little.

Some doors are closing as others open.

My kids are almost grown.

I'm nearing the end of a long and much-loved era.

I can't reject the fact that things change.

Loss is inevitable, but so is growth.

There is a natural order to things that we only partially understand.

So, despite the fact that loss and change are inevitable, they can feel wrong and hard to reconcile.

It's exactly this feeling of wrongness that shows me how much I loved what I am losing, what I am leaving behind. I had to look up the title of

today's poem to learn its meaning.

One definition of the word climactic is connected to the idea of climactic years,

which the ancient Greeks considered as set turning points in our lives.

A contemporary medical climacteric is the period of life in which fertility declines and ends.

It includes paramenopause, menopause, and postmenopause, an era on the timeline set by a

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