☀️ 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 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 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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Kurt Bell
Jul 1, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/01/2023 - Less ambition *
It’s good now to leave my ambition in the rear-view mirror. It was always a small and very slight thing, my ambition—nothing to it...
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Kurt Bell
May 17, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 05/17/2023 - Glacier into the sea
I must type quickly this morning as I’m having my heart scanned at 6:45 and I don’t want to be late. I rather enjoy such trips to the...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 16, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/16/2022 - Santa Ana winds
There’s a strong wind outside. They call these the “Santa Ana” winds. It’s early still, and dark, and the whole house rattles and...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | MULLY kissed me
Recalling a time with another community and another way of life.
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Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Yelling at a deaf and mute girl
Reflecting on how I might use Stoic principles to handle a challenging moment.
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Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Live with Emily
An impromptu vlog with my daughter, Emily. We were out for a day long motorcycle ride running errands and visiting family...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Why I gave up Japan
I began this live stream to discuss the reason I seemingly abandoned my connection to my friends in Japan from the JVLOG community.
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Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Emily asked me to make this video
My grown daughter asked me to make this video in order to share a little about what’s happening in our lives and to perhaps kick off...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 29, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Sand or coal?
The opportunity to stay or to go. I say always go. Especially when we are young—always go. For the wonder of what we have left behind is...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 28, 20206 min read
STOIC POETRY | The beginning of Going Alone
I remember when I first thought up the idea of Going Alone. My family and I were living then in Japan, and I was making YouTube videos...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 27, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | No more free will
I once imagined I was steering my own life in a very full and meaningful way. Full control. Nearly complete, adult, and independent...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 26, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | To walk alone among ghosts
I was never very afraid of the dark, or the things which come out after the sun goes down, to wander, and slither, and creep, and fly...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 25, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | Sailing the inner sea
There is a sea within us upon which circumstance presses restless winds night and day; forming crests and troughs, moving over the face...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 24, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Infrastructure
There is an inward architecture which we create through the fact and consequence of our decisions and actions, which become the...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 22, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Reading good books
I once rose late each day to meander life in search of tidbits to consume: news, gossip, politics, and the shared things of the appetites...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 19, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | Some ways in which we are alive
The price of admittance into the venue and arena of life is the effort and labor of our parents in conceiving, bearing, and bringing us...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 18, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Seeing between the Distraction
Just every once in a while...every so often...I'll spot the Indifference between the moments of my daily life. For, while the Nothing...
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