I can’t stop zooming in on photos of Shirley Manson

And also, thinking about retreats

As always, she looks fucking fantastic. Iconic. Beautiful.

But I can’t take my eyes off the downward curve of her jawline. It is beautiful, this soft yielding of flesh to the expansiveness of time.

Yet, it looks like everything I have been taught to fear - it looks like the beginning of the jowl. I notice the softening of my own face more and more now, …