The Good Life 3/26

☀️ The Good Life - 09/07/2023 - Summer’s gone

Sep 7, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/07/2023 - Summer’s gone

Autumn met me at the beach yesterday. A chill evening wind. Empty sands. A forbidding gray look upon the sea. All summer is gone. And for...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/06/2023 - Clay at our own wheel

Kurt Bell

Sep 6, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/06/2023 - Clay at our own wheel

Yumiko and I both have begun to mold ourselves into the people we wish to become. It’s a very alien and strange process and feeling;...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/05/2023 - Busy woman at the beach

Kurt Bell

Sep 5, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/05/2023 - Busy woman at the beach

I sat on the sand yesterday for three hours straight, only breaking my meditation twice for a refreshing plunge in the sea. The beach was...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/04/2023 - Foreign dad

Kurt Bell

Sep 4, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/04/2023 - Foreign dad

Yumiko and I enjoyed an interesting conversation yesterday about what it’s like to be a Japanese woman married to a non-Japanese man,...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/03/2023 - Dominoes fall

Kurt Bell

Sep 3, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/03/2023 - Dominoes fall

As I age, I look back on the preceding decades like the acts in a great play which we are all compelled to perform to a greater or lesser...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/02/2023 - The rain indoors

Kurt Bell

Sep 2, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/02/2023 - The rain indoors

Rain now in the morning. I can hear it now out there in the dark. But the rain here is never really in earnest, never genuine or very...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/01/2023 - Commencement

Kurt Bell

Sep 1, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/01/2023 - Commencement

At work now everything seems like it’s coming to an end, which feels premature, as I still have fifteen months. I got a new project to...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/31/2023 - Wabi-Sabi Life

Kurt Bell

Aug 31, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/31/2023 - Wabi-Sabi Life

Today’s Good Life Meditation was very helpful to me, not only in readying myself for the difficult day ahead, but in laying a firm...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/30/2023 - Storm Force 2

Kurt Bell

Aug 30, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/30/2023 - Storm Force 2

Storm Force 2 at the beach yesterday, which sounds impressive, though it is not: “light breeze”, “small wavelets” or “wind felt on the...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/29/2023 - What a view!

Kurt Bell

Aug 29, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/29/2023 - What a view!

299 days left. I know that the coming paradigm will be little different from the current. Each new life being largely the same as the...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/28/2023 - Objective of Balance

Kurt Bell

Aug 28, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/28/2023 - Objective of Balance

I added a new objective yesterday to The Good Life creed. The objective of Balance is number eight, and will speak to the management of...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/27/2023 - A heavy poem *

Kurt Bell

Aug 27, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/27/2023 - A heavy poem *

The ocean has grown cold. Very cold. Cold like winter. It burns my head when I first get in. And it’s painful and a struggle to swim...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/26/2023 - The other man at the beach

Kurt Bell

Aug 26, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/26/2023 - The other man at the beach

I have a new companion—of sorts. He’s a man maybe five years older than me. He looks Persian, very handsome and distinguished, like a...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/25/2023 - Recognized limits *

Kurt Bell

Aug 25, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/25/2023 - Recognized limits *

In today’s video I talk more about work than I probably should. This is me trying to figure out how to do well in a difficult situation...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/24/2023 - Great Life Adventure *

Kurt Bell

Aug 24, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/24/2023 - Great Life Adventure *

It dawned on me yesterday. This time next year I won’t be here. And I’ll be alone again. And I won’t have any home. And nearly all my...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/23/2023 - Summer’s ending *

Kurt Bell

Aug 23, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/23/2023 - Summer’s ending *

After my evening swim yesterday, I sat alone on the beach watching the day fade while a warm wind blew in from the sea. A man older than...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/22/2023 - Always ready to die

Kurt Bell

Aug 22, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/22/2023 - Always ready to die

Being always ready to die. It’s interesting how much impact this first objective has had on my life. To begin each morning with a careful...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/21/2023 - Storm swim

Kurt Bell

Aug 21, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/21/2023 - Storm swim

I went into the ocean yesterday despite the storm. The waves were the biggest I’ve seen since 1985, and the great storms which raged upon...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/18/2023 - Last night as our kid

Kurt Bell

Aug 18, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/18/2023 - Last night as our kid

Emily goes back to school today. Last night then was likely her last night sleeping under our roof as our “kid”, as her next home will...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/17/2023 - Off my game

Kurt Bell

Aug 17, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/17/2023 - Off my game

Not on my A-game this morning. This happens sometimes, though it’s different now that I’m old. When I was young being off my game was...

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