☀️ The Good Life - 06/12/2023 - In a barrel towards Niagara
It’s nice getting old. There’s no age better than now, though I expect tomorrow might be better still. Sure, I’m a bit crippled with...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 11, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/11/2023 - Higher up the mountain *
Today feels like waking up upon a great mountain. The clean, cold air up here is bracing. And the aching muscles of the climb to get here...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 10, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/10/2023 - Return of the Muse
Poetry of a sort has joined me at the guitar. Nearly every evening, while Yumiko prepares dinner, I sit in the garden with a glass of red...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 9, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/09/2023 - No longer very afraid *
I cannot remember the last time I couldn’t sleep. My nights have become like the nights of my youth. Hard asleep at bedtime and fast...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 8, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/08/2023 - Time to sell the bike
It’s time to sell my motorcycle. I don’t want or need it anymore. My riding days are done. Never again do I wish to ride. That part of my...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 6, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/06/2023 - Life’s a stage
Parenthood now reminds me of the childhood years, in particular the school events where our kid was an actor in the play, participating...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 5, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/05/2023 - Log above a stream *
My well being lately seems balanced on a log. I’m like a young boy crossing over a stream on a fallen tree. Altogether, I feel pretty...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 3, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Body on the beach
A dead man washed up on the beach this week. He’d been out there a long time. It was those big waves, I think. The ones that scare me....
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Kurt Bell
Jun 2, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Candlelit years
We’ve new neighbors. A young family. There’s a small boy and a little white dog named Bunny. They radiate such energy and illumination!...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 1, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Intervention *
Intervention! Yumiko and I were intervened, stopped in our tracks, prevented by our daughter from making a big mistake. I was sitting in...
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Kurt Bell
May 31, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/31/2023 - After surgery
Yesterday went well. My surgery is complete and I should know more in a week. My thinking is still active though I’ve little now to write...
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Kurt Bell
May 30, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/30/2023 - Afraid of the sea
Surgery today. I’m having a growing tumor removed from my abdomen, along with its friend, another bump growing nearby. This is the season...
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Kurt Bell
May 29, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/29/2023 - Ready for “I do”
I’m nervous about today. Today’s the darn day. The day we might decide to buy that old house in Japan. Picking a place to buy now feels...
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Kurt Bell
May 28, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/28/2023 - Staid at dawn
Another sound night of sleep. Deep, dark and dreamless. A sleep like death is such a delight to awake from. Morning after the deepest...
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Kurt Bell
May 27, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/27/2023 - Touring the farmhouse
I was up late last night to tour the outside of the farmhouse with Yumiko and her family. The experience was strange and tactile. Like...
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Kurt Bell
May 26, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/26/2023 - Catching up with my wife *
So bold! So cavalier! Yumiko astonishes me with her courage. As we move together into our empty-nest years I turn repeatedly to find...
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Kurt Bell
May 25, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/25/2023 - A day at the office
Yumiko went into the office yesterday and came home like a battered soldier returning from the front. The Los Angeles commute was a...
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Kurt Bell
May 24, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/24/2023 - Sharpened mind
I awoke this morning with the sharpest mind I can remember. Where did this come from? Clarity of thought like my twenties. Halcyon days...
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Kurt Bell
May 23, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/23/2023 - Principle of Home
I stood in the ocean yesterday genuinely afraid. I was all alone. There was nobody nearby. The lifeguard towers were all empty. And very...
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Kurt Bell
May 22, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/22/2023 - Emily goes away
A summer without Emily. I guess we’d better get used to it, seeing as our life courses may soon diverge. But Emily will always have a...
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