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Kurt Bell
Aug 19, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Becoming an anti-theist
August 19, 2019 Dear Eric, You'd never believe how much time I spend these days reading the Bible and books about Biblical history.
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Kurt Bell
Aug 18, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | The pirate ride
August 18, 2019 Dear Eric, There’s no good reason to imagine we’re anything but atoms and molecules, and compounds and organs, and muscles
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Kurt Bell
Aug 17, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Destroyer of worlds
August 17, 2019 Dear Eric, I made something since you became done. We never once spoke of this thing during our talks at college, as I think
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Kurt Bell
Aug 16, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Going more deeply alone
August 16, 2019 Dear Eric, I'm a little intimidated at the idea of going alone without social media. So far, living untethered from the mo
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Kurt Bell
Aug 15, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | The illusion of free will
August 15, 2019 Dear Eric, I think I've made up my mind regarding free will... I don't think we have it. I think free will is an illusion
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Kurt Bell
Aug 13, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Going Quiet
August 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I've gone quiet on social media... I know you don't know what that is - social media. It's the way people keep in
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Kurt Bell
Aug 12, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Exploring, not searching...
August 12, 2019 Dear Eric, I had an interesting conversation with someone yesterday - a Christian friend - who commented that he thought I
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Kurt Bell
Jul 28, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | Bette Davis House
Reflecting on The Good Life after a nice summertime swim in the sea near the Bette Davis House in Laguna Beach, California. My name is...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 27, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | My Bible study is done
Completing my formal study of the Bible.
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Kurt Bell
Jul 6, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | Yesterday’s long desert sojourn was a new experience of indifference
Upon further investigation I keep discovering that the cold depth of nature goes further and deeper than I'd ever thought.
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Kurt Bell
Jul 3, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | Crossing now from the place...
I wrote this to describe the feeling I get when I hike away from Siberia ghost town, towards and into the low mountains to the north.
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Kurt Bell
Jul 2, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | My muse is blind, deaf, mute and dead
My muse is blind, deaf, mute and dead.
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Kurt Bell
Jul 1, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | It's flattery to call my muse a corpse...
It's flattery to call my muse a corpse, as she is so much less...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 30, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | I fear no social circumstance...
I fear no social circumstance
For I've been to Mt. Wildness
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Kurt Bell
Jun 15, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | Adventure dashboard
My adventure this week was fruitful in many ways, including the addition of several strange and new cryptic runes upon the windshield of...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 27, 20183 min read
STOIC POETRY | Irrelevance begins early
A great threat to our well-being is the fact that we begin to fade long before we can sense ourselves diminishing. The process begins...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 19, 20181 min read
STOIC POETRY | Empty vessel
I enjoyed an interesting talk with a friend today where we touched briefly on the differing ways in which people pace the moments of...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 15, 20182 min read
STOIC POETRY | Estate sale
I drove past an estate sale today. The very concept brought me back to Japan, and the life I'd formerly lived selling whatever goods...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 4, 201818 min read
STOIC POETRY | The Cold Gate Hike
This document is the official transcript of the Cold Gate hike. This was a very scary adventure. Not so much during the hike itself, but...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 14, 20187 min read
STOIC POETRY | The November Threat Solitude
DAY ONE ALONE The Return to Siberia countdown timer says I’ll be there tomorrow. Actually, I’ll be there tonight. Let’s go! Last week's...
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