The Good Life - 03/15/2023 - Trevor’s big day
There’s a very old man where I live now. I see him like a chimp sees the humans walking by its cage. The old man limps past my chimp cage...
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Kurt Bell
Mar 14, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 03/14/2023 - Forcing myself to behave professionally
Yumiko joined me at the beach yesterday. It was a cold and blustery evening, and we walked together from Seventeenth Street to lifeguard...
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Kurt Bell
Mar 13, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 03/13/2023 - Daylights Savings Time is kicking my butt
That was a challenging weekend. The body keeps telling me it’s done, despite my best efforts to lure it safely back to good health with...
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Kurt Bell
Mar 10, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 03/10/2023 - Sufficient, if not excellent *
There were kites at the beach yesterday, enormous kites, down by the pier, soaring near, high and steady like great beasts swimming in a...
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Kurt Bell
Mar 9, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 03/09/2023 - To watch an approaching storm *
I’ve realized something interesting about this frustrating cognitive decline, that it is less a decline than a slowing, a reduction in...
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Kurt Bell
Mar 8, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 03/08/2023 - I did my duty
Yumiko asked me yesterday if anyone would notice if we silently slipped away from America. It was during our lunchtime dog walk, when we...
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Kurt Bell
Mar 7, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 03/07/2023 - To finish our work
Such a nice visit from Emily yesterday. She appeared as from nowhere on a Monday (she’d warned us she was coming the day before, though...
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Kurt Bell
Mar 6, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 03/06/2023 - Round two
Round two: Really feeling bad again. I checked the CDC website and learned that it is not uncommon for those with Covid to feel bad again...
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Kurt Bell
Mar 5, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 03/05/2023 - Choking dog *
Life ambushed me three times this week, caught me once, ok twice, though I struggled free. I’m more nimble now that I’m old. Able to step...
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Kurt Bell
Mar 3, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 03/01/2023 - Horror comes for us all *
I slept soundly and deep last night, which surprised me for a Tuesday headed into Wednesday, the heart of the work week, the deep end of...
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Kurt Bell
Mar 3, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 03/03/2023 - Off with this shirt
I’m overdressed for work today. I only have one meeting, and that’s with friends. And it’s a Friday, when most dress down just a...
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Kurt Bell
Mar 2, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 03/02/2023 - Are my walking days done? *
I saw Angela the other day at the beach. She’s my friend with cancer. The woman who has decided not to treat her disease and is just...
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Kurt Bell
Feb 28, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 02/28/2023 - Feeling good after working hard *
I wrote a song last night. I knew I had it in me. But a song? Set to music which I strummed myself on guitar. I did this because of the...
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Kurt Bell
Feb 27, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 02/27/2023 - Pretending to worry *
Big waves arrived last night. It was around 2:30 A.M. and their crashing woke me, and woke something else—my work worry. Funny thing is,...
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Kurt Bell
Feb 26, 20233 min read
The Good Life - 02/26/2023 - A Saturday to remember
I’m reading a book now which I already plan to read again. It’s because I know that I am missing so much. Reading this good book...
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Kurt Bell
Feb 25, 20233 min read
The Good Life - 02/25/2023 - After Covid
I think I’m through the other side. Covid appears to be passed. I kept notes during the infection, marked the events and impact. That was...
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Kurt Bell
Feb 25, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 02/24/2023 - Cold feet
Two weeks back in the USA and I feel like my spirit has returned to America. I wasn’t fully home that first week, not half back; doing my...
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Kurt Bell
Feb 25, 20232 min read
Walking in Japan - Should we buy this old house in Japan?
Guess what? House number three—the “Golden House”—is back on the market. If only it were just a half hour closer to town, then this house...
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Kurt Bell
Feb 23, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 02/23/2023 - Residue Covid
Another day in this little room. At least there’s rain, which feels like the outdoors so near. I can still hear the sea through the rain,...
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Kurt Bell
Feb 22, 20232 min read
The Good Life - 02/22/2023 - Passover morning *
There’s a super-strong wind blowing in the dark. The dogs were confused when I opened the door to the yard and let them out. There’s a...
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