Age And Beauty Vol. 3 -2021- -

A woman, 94, putting on red lipstick. She misses her lip line, laughs, wipes it with her thumb, tries again. “There,” she says. “Still here.”

What makes this volume different from its predecessors is its willingness to talk about . Not morbidly, but honestly. One subject says: “I used to think beauty was about not changing. Now I know it’s about changing beautifully.” Another: “Every line on my face is a place I’ve been.” Age and Beauty Vol. 3 -2021-

Released in a year when so many of us were separated from older loved ones — or grieving them — this installment feels especially tender. 2021 was still deep in pandemic fog. Nursing home windows, masked visits, postponed birthdays. Against that backdrop, Age and Beauty Vol. 3 becomes a quiet act of resistance: we are still becoming. A woman, 94, putting on red lipstick