I feel strong and healthy.

Strength is easier to see in what it lets you do than in what it looks like.

Carrying a sleeping child from the car to the bed without waking them — that is strength and control and care, all at once, and it does not photograph.

The mirror is a poor instrument here. It reports on surfaces. The real record is a list of ordinary things you can still do without thinking about them, and it runs longer than you would guess if you sat down and wrote it out.