☀️ The Good Life - 07/25/2023 - Reexamining our plans
Emily is back from Japan, and she brought big news that she will return to Japan to live after she graduates university next spring. She...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 24, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/24/2023 - Emily returns
Our daughter is over the Aleutian islands now. She just purchased the Airplane WIFI, as I saw the credit card charge flash by on my...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 23, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/23/2023 - When I grow up
Emily’s childhood is really done. It’s taken me a bit for that fact to settle in. But, with university nearly over and her life path...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 22, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/22/2023 - Ready to die
My life’s first objective is to be always ready to die. It’s what I strive for daily. To live and be in such a way as to be prepared to...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 21, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/21/2023 - Retirement training
I took the day off work to learn how to retire. The place where I work offers classes for those at the end of their careers, in order to...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 20, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/20/2023 - Six months alone
Six months. That’s how long Yumiko and I will be apart. Yumiko will have just half a year to establish our new life in Japan before I...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 19, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/19/2023 - Relaxing more at work
I’ve discovered a funny new superpower at work, a temporary, ephemeral force which has only recently emerged, and will be gone soon when...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 18, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/18/2023 - Three questions
I’ve added a challenging question to my morning routine. I ask myself if I am ready to die. The complete answer depends upon three...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 17, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/17/2023 - Lost swimmer
In the evening last night around dinnertime, I was outside with the dogs and my guitar, watching the sun go down, and I heard several...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 16, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/16/2023 - Long ocean swim
I swam for a long time in the ocean yesterday. My longest swim in years. It was early in the morning, when the air was still and the sea...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 15, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/15/2023 - Reading ahead
I listened to a podcast (link in comments) yesterday, by a thirty-something year old American man living in Shizuoka Japan, a young...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 14, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/14/2023 - Texting Emily in Japan
It’s 5:00 AM in California and 9:00 PM tomorrow in Japan, and I’m texting now with my daughter in Kyoto, reading about her impressions of...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 13, 20234 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/13/2023 - Old man struggling in the sea
I’ve been swimming daily now in the ocean for several weeks. My body has changed, growing stronger with the muscles I use to swim, skin...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 12, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/12/2023 - Old woman at the pharmacy
A woman spoke to me at the pharmacy yesterday. We were seated close to one another, waiting for our prescriptions to be called. The woman...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 11, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/11/2023 - Completed my will
I completed my will yesterday. I can’t believe it took me so long to perform this quite important adult task and responsibly. I got...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 10, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/10/2023 - A warm stone to sit upon
I sat in the garden all afternoon yesterday, which is something I could never do before age 59, as I was always before so energetic and...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 9, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/09/2023 - Old woman at the sea
Yesterday, at the beach, a group of three middle-aged adults arrived by the edge of the water, escorting a very old woman to look at the...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 8, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/08/2023 - Ten months notice
Yesterday was a huge day for us. Yumiko told her boss that she’s leaving—in ten months, but that’ll go fast. Yumiko has a key role where...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 7, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/07/2023 - Rounding Cape Horn
In his novel, Two Years Before The Mast, Richard Henry Dana Jr. writes about his 1836, mid-winter experience of rounding Cape Horn in the...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 6, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/06/2023 - Always ready to die
Beginning today, I will conclude my daily Good Life meditation with an earnest assessment of my readiness to die. In short, asking myself...
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