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☀️ The Good Life - 06/12/2023 - In a barrel towards Niagara

Jun 12, 20233 min read

☀️ 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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☀️ The Good Life - 06/11/2023 - Higher up the mountain *

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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☀️ The Good Life - 06/10/2023 - Return of the Muse

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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☀️ The Good Life - 06/09/2023 - No longer very afraid *

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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☀️ The Good Life - 06/08/2023 - Time to sell the bike

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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☀️ The Good Life - 06/06/2023 - Life’s a stage

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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☀️ The Good Life - 06/05/2023 - Log above a stream *

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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☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Body on the beach

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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☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Candlelit years

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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☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Intervention *

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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☀️ The Good Life - 05/31/2023 - After surgery

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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☀️ The Good Life - 05/30/2023 - Afraid of the sea

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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☀️ The Good Life - 05/29/2023 - Ready for “I do”

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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☀️ The Good Life - 05/28/2023 - Staid at dawn

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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☀️ The Good Life - 05/27/2023 - Touring the farmhouse

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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☀️ The Good Life - 05/26/2023 - Catching up with my wife *

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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☀️ The Good Life - 05/25/2023 - A day at the office

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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☀️ The Good Life - 05/24/2023 - Sharpened mind

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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☀️ The Good Life - 05/23/2023 - Principle of Home

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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☀️ The Good Life - 05/22/2023 - Emily goes away

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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