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 21, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | The life of faith—
What effort is involved in holding a position of faith? The work is in the restraint needed to protect our belief from doubt. We strive...
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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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Kurt Bell
Aug 17, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | What there isn't beyond the sea
Life is a little like coming awake on an island beach, naked and screaming and vulnerable and weak. The natives here do care for us, and...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 11, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | When our finding days are done
Before I was alive I'm pretty sure I simply did not exist. Oh sure, the stuff of which I am made was around, and the energy which courses...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 10, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | Going outside
There's this world where I live... And where others like me live. We are there together always. Such a nice place: with the things we...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 17, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | The grounding of goodness
It is said that good actions are their own reward; bearing an immediate and lasting fruit of nearly tangible well-being unto at least the...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 27, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Covering ears and eyes
October 27, 2019 Dear Eric, Nice try, that... Though maybe you will have the last laugh. But I think you left us on the promise of...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 24, 20194 min read
STOIC POETRY | Life as a distraction
October 24, 2019 Dear Eric, Do you remember the flashy show we made of our youth? No, of course, you don't. You can't remember...
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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 16, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Away from the fire
October 16, 2019 Dear Eric, To the best of my knowledge, you never once went truly alone into the wild. But that's no surprise, as few...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 13, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Quiet remembrance of the truth
October 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I expect you discovered Stoic principles without knowing they were such, as ideas like these are natural to...
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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 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
Sep 30, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Selecting the right picture frame
September 30, 2019 Dear Eric Looking back now from the vantage point of three-decades, I can see that we both lived and portrayed lives...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 27, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | The low-road to justice
September 27, 2019 Dear Eric, It's too bad our talks together never explored the issue of morality and justice... As I would have enjoyed...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 23, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Life in the open
September 23, 2019 Dear Eric, You were never one to hide... But then you were so young you perhaps had little idea what there was to hide...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 22, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Wide margins
September 22, 2019 Dear Eric, How wide were the margins of your life? Not wide enough, I'd guess, given the fact that you left absolutely...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | My first time using faith...
September 18, 2019 Dear Eric, I weaponized faith for the first time yesterday. Well, maybe that's too strong a word. But that's how it...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 13, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Softypapa's last video
September 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I was so tempted yesterday to title my latest YouTube upload Softypapa's last video. This is due to the...
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