In praise of the middle

Some thoughts on approaching 40

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“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno

In the middle of a holiday, in the middle of a year I foolishly believed would be easier, in the middle of a bed, exhausted, on the middle of an island, in the middle of the Mediterrane…