STOIC POETRY | BOOK READING - Going Alone - The Anxiety Hike
This is my May, 2020 book reading of Going Alone. For this month, I chose to read select portions of the chapter titled The Anxiety Hike,...
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Kurt Bell
May 30, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | The blessing of mortality's embrace
An impressive thing about deserts is the honesty they demand of our age, our health, and our constitution. The desert will not...
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Kurt Bell
May 5, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Finding a lost desert mining camp alone at night
My perennial desert nighttime destination is the lost and deserted desert mining camp called "Campo #1". Like Siberia ghost town, I lay...
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Kurt Bell
May 4, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | My mind playing tricks on me alone in the desert at night
My anxiety rises as I walk alone though the dark desert more than a mile from Siberia and on my way into the Deep Water Wilderness....
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Kurt Bell
May 3, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Return to Siberia on Thursday, May 7th
My name is Kurt Bell. You can learn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone. Be safe... But not too safe. #Adventure #desert...
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Kurt Bell
May 2, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Editing the new book
Work on the new book is progressing slower now, since the arrival of COVID-19 and the shutdown of so much of our society's day-to-day...
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Kurt Bell
Apr 25, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | A Stoic returning home
I might go out Into life, To see what is there, And then return in peace. Or, I might stay, Seeking peace; Wondering always... What there...
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Kurt Bell
Apr 22, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Walking through the desert alone at night
A long walk alone into the dark desert with no companion, no guide, no certainty and no companions. My name is Kurt Bell. You can learn...
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Kurt Bell
Apr 21, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Discovering a lost desert mining structure at night
Several miles into the desert at night I've found the remnants and memory of a long past desert mining adventure. What ever did this man hav
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Kurt Bell
Apr 18, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | A young man alone in the desert
I saw this young man alone in the desert some miles outside Palm Springs, California. He'd made a life for himself on his own terms -...
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Kurt Bell
Feb 25, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | The Death of Mad Mike Hughes
I got the news on Sunday, February 23rd, 2020 that Mike Hughes had died. "Mad Mike" was killed while piloting his latest home-made rocket...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 23, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | November desert night hike
November 23 2019 Dear Eric, The very first principle I identified for The Good Life is something call The Path of Wildness. I happened...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | The places I've never been
October 31, 2019 Dear Eric, It's a neat trick to neither lament nor attempt to remember the lives we did not live. For we all walk...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 21, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Try more. Fail more.
October 21, 2019 Dear Eric, The old adage of "better to burn out than to fade away" comes to mind when I think of your short life. You...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 20, 20194 min read
STOIC POETRY | The Path of Wildness
October 20, 2019 Dear Eric, I've an opportunity to exercise what is perhaps my earliest principle - The Path of Wildness: The Path of...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 17, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | Becoming a nihilist
October 17, 2019 Dear Eric, It's not possible to ever fully return from a solitary venture into the deep desert. The mountains, yes. The...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 15, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Haunting a past life
October 15, 2019 Dear Yumiko, Without costumes, and two weeks too soon, we haunted together yesterday the scene and setting of one of our...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 12, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Leaves upon the sea
October 12, 2019 Dear Eric, Would you ever have not taken your own life? Though I do not believe in fate, I'm convinced you had no real...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 11, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | A job well done
October 11, 2019 Dear Eric, I think we all desire to do well. And by this I mean to not just get by, but to complete our work to the...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 9, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | A house called Stoic
October 9, 2019 Dear Eric, My home was found at last with a school and way called Stoic. You never knew this journey, I think. We both...
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