Midlife Regeneration

Midlife Regeneration

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The 7 Stations of a Man's Regeneration. Almost Nobody Reaches the Last One.
A true story of burnout recovery and regeneration: how one exhausted man regrew a dead valley and himself, and reached the summit of a man’s climb.
My wife thinks something is broken in me.
I can sit on a bench for an hour and do absolutely nothing...
A Tuesday With Nothing on It
Overscheduled kids, exhausted midlife parents, and the science of boredom. Why one empty afternoon a week gives your child what no coach can install.
A starling in a murmuration tracks exactly seven birds. Seven. Out of ten thousand.
And why is that...
The finances recover. Then they don’t.
The relationship improves. Then it doesn’t. The body gets better. Then it doesn’t.
Burnout has a stage nobody warns you about: the emptiness after the crash.
No fire. No drive. Not even panic.
Tech can’t override biology
No wild animal is sick from living wrong.
After a landslide, soil should stay dead.
The microbes are burned by the sun. The structure is gone. By any normal logic, nothing grows there again.
A piece of wood can’t swim against the current of a river.
It gets taken wherever the water wants to go, no matter how good the wood is.
Oh Boy - I Blew It up - Badly
I ran a public speaking rehearsal straight into a heart attack story, then a soil tangent, then out of time before I reached the point that connected…

June 2026

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