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Rewilding Myself

How can we return our tech-addled brains and bodies to a more natural state? I dunno, but I'm taking a crack at it.

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A m y B e s s
Mar 17, 2026
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A couple of years ago, I noticed a house that was being swallowed by the earth. It’d been built a century ago on a half-acre hillside at what was once a quiet country crossroads. Over time, it slumped away from the intersection, where eventually a traffic light would usher drivers like me to a nearby strip mall. Vines soon wrapped the place with a posse…

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