STOIC POETRY | Swimming to a park bench by the sea
I swam yesterday in the sea. I swam possibly too far yesterday in the sea, as I am today quite worn and spent. I expect that this is a...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 16, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | An uncomplaining camp
Emotions are a curious thing to ride upon. They jump and jostle and jolt and then rest, before picking up again and tossing all about. As...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 7, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Ad Aster and The Great Indifference
Yumiko and I watched a movie last night called Ad Aster, starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. We enjoyed the film, which is a science...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 6, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | My retirement mission
Next week, our daughter Emily will leave us. As a family, on Saturday, July 11th, we will spend a day moving her few things to an...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 1, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Desert wildfire - BMW R 1150 Adventure motovlog
I encountered this desert wildfire two weeks back while en route to Siberia ghost town. The fire was moving fast across the desert scrub,...
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Kurt Bell
May 31, 20201 min read
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 26, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | I did something dumb
Venturing too far and too long into the desert during midday after the Desert Killer has returned is something I know better than to do,...
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Kurt Bell
May 25, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | THE GOOD LIFE | A Human Operating System | 05-08-20
I'd made the foolish mistake of venturing into the desert further than I should on a day when I should not and past the point I should...
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Kurt Bell
May 14, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | An urgency to life
Every time I go to Siberia I can sense my diminishing capacity to withstand the world as it is and always will be; harsh, raw, deadly and...
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Kurt Bell
Apr 27, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | COVID-19 and Stoic Apathy
The arrival of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an opportunity to exercise the Stoic virtue of Apathy in the face of what we cannot easily...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 25, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Steve Irwin, dead at forty-four
October 25, 2019 Dear Eric, Though you lived few years, I think you lived many days. As you were around much during the time when you...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 19, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | A plan of life and death
October 19, 2019 Dear Eric, I write these words now almost twenty years to the day since I completed my story of you and Joe-Bob, sharing...
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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 10, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Prepared to arrive
October 10, 2019 Dear Eric, You not only knew the exact place and time of your death but you indeed even walked there. You went alone. I...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 8, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Be safe... But not too safe
October 8, 2019 Dear Eric, And what of the fearful things of this world...? You knew some of these, and yet you fell at the first major...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 7, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Die alive
October 7, 2019 Dear Eric, Every genuine adventure ends in a new life. How many lives can be lived in a lifetime? One is enough...as long...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 6, 20194 min read
STOIC POETRY | Back into the woods
October 6, 2019 Dear Yumiko, There's investment in adventure which yields return throughout our remaining days. For me, this is...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 5, 20198 min read
STOIC POETRY | Winter writing
October 5, 2019 Dear Eric, There's a place I go to work. It's way out in the desert - almost two-hundred miles from my current home by...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 4, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Life at an oasis
October 4, 2019 Dear Eric, Do we borrow from tomorrow when we live in an imagined better day? Maybe not. Perhaps this is how we make way...
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