Lost Among the Birds

Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn''t want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job. He didn''t want to think about his failed relationship with “the one” or his potential for ruining a new relationship with “the next one.” And he almost certainly didn''t want to think about turning forty. And so instead he went birding.

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