What's got my attention this week #43

Links, recs and whole bunch of things to get you through the weekend

I love this picture of Mardonia Galeana, 89, taken by her grandson, carer and “personal stylist” Yosimar Reyes. (Pic and full story: New York Times)

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• “We’re certainly not in the habit of listening to old women who have had life experience.” Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the power of ageing and why youth is overrated.
• Leaving home used to be a rite of passage.
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Poorna Bell

on being called an “intimidating woman”. What’s wrong with confident, self-assured, got it together (or looks like it)?
• Glorious piece about the emotional sustenance of quilting.
• And on that note, why working with your hands is good for your brain.
• The British government has u-turned on blocking HRT implants – but they’re still almost impossible to get.
• “My first date after divorce.”
• This piece on “the Huberman husband” made me howl.
• On while we…