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Richard Rohr says the two halves of life are separated not by age but by a fall. Something stops working, and the failure turns out to be the doorway. A report from the far side of a year spent falling on purpose.
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I planned to ask a room of accomplished people what they’d do if they gave themselves permission to take risks. A week before the retreat, I realized it was the wrong question. These were people who’d taken risks their whole lives. The right question was harder.
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Last week, seventeen of us drove north to a summer camp on a lake in Wisconsin and spent five days asking each other questions we’d stopped asking ourselves. I can’t tell you what was said in the circle. I can tell you what the place did to us.
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We’ve engineered difficulty out of our lives so completely that we now pay to get it back. That’s not a joke about exercise bikes. It’s the most practical insight I know about staying alive in the second half of life. Next month, a group of us is testing it in the Northwoods.
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The dangerous season of midlife doesn’t announce itself with a crisis. It arrives as a gap between the life you built and how it feels to live it. Most of us respond by building more. That’s the one move guaranteed not to work.
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I’m fifty-five years old. I’m the managing partner of a national law firm. And every July, I spend a month as a summer camp counselor in the north woods of Wisconsin. Everyone thought I’d lost my mind. It was the sanest thing I’d done in years.
