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Kurt Bell
Apr 18, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | A young man alone in the desert
I saw this young man alone in the desert some miles outside Palm Springs, California. He'd made a life for himself on his own terms -...
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Kurt Bell
Feb 26, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Deliberate steps
Looking back on the route so far, through the tangled weeds and forgotten and neglected spaces; I’ll remember fondly that I’d walked...
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Kurt Bell
Feb 17, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Depth is a relative thing
I previously imagined that the risk of avoiding risk was shallow on the domestic side, and deep on the personal side; that those who...
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Kurt Bell
Jan 11, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | The inward path of warmth
We live best When we return from the cold And choose the inward path of warmth A life of now And a life of here And a life with others...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 31, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Ulysses' Ride - A will-less venture into new life
Exploring the livelihood and consequence of living with an awareness that free will may be a quite compelling illusion.
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Kurt Bell
Dec 30, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Shadow Dividend: The value of breaking our life
Sometimes the best benefit of change is what we lose rather than what we gain.
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Kurt Bell
Nov 23, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | November desert night hike
November 23 2019 Dear Eric, The very first principle I identified for The Good Life is something call The Path of Wildness. I happened...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 13, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Bearing well the pain of gluttony
November 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I sometimes - often, in fact - indulge a little too much. The temptation is so innocent a thing...just...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 12, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | The Principle of Public Speaking
November 12, 2019 Dear Eric, I recently added a new principle to The Good Life which I call the Principle of Public Speaking. The idea is...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 6, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | A good reason to change our mind
November 6, 2019 Dear Eric, I am very good at being wrong. It's a knack, kinda. And I am often wrong on the same decision more than once....
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Kurt Bell
Nov 4, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | To experience the cold and the dark
November 4, 2019 Dear Eric, I have noticed a new trend in my thinking and writing... I've been coming upon the theme of fire often. Not...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | The places I've never been
October 31, 2019 Dear Eric, It's a neat trick to neither lament nor attempt to remember the lives we did not live. For we all walk...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 30, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | The blessing of goodness
October 30, 2019 Dear Eric, Both joy and suffering can yield the same sweet harvest if we know how to winnow the chaff from the grain....
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Kurt Bell
Oct 29, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | The blessing of a good defeat
October 29, 2019 Dear Eric, I'd like to tell you the tale of my falling, and my recovery. It's a good tale. And most of us have such a...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 28, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Old voices command small audience
October 28, 2019 Dear Eric, When we are young there are many who hear; though as we age there seem fewer to listen. There is something...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 27, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Covering ears and eyes
October 27, 2019 Dear Eric, Nice try, that... Though maybe you will have the last laugh. But I think you left us on the promise of...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 26, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | My slower footsteps may not delay the orbit of the sun
How much distance do we travel when we stand still? How far and fast do we go while asleep in our beds? And how hasty our journey even...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 25, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Steve Irwin, dead at forty-four
October 25, 2019 Dear Eric, Though you lived few years, I think you lived many days. As you were around much during the time when you...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 24, 20194 min read
STOIC POETRY | Life as a distraction
October 24, 2019 Dear Eric, Do you remember the flashy show we made of our youth? No, of course, you don't. You can't remember...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 23, 20194 min read
STOIC POETRY | A seat at the flame
October 23, 2019 Dear Eric, The subject of life meaning never crossed our young minds. We were perhaps simply too young then. Our...
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