☀️ The Good Life - 09/26/2023 - A daily mountain to climb
A daily mountain to climb. I’ve expanded Objective number two “The Good Use of Time” of The Good Life creed to include the idea of one...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 22, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/22/2023 - Outside prison
I’ve stopped daydreaming. It’s the strangest thing. I’ve also stopped planning, largely. And that’s strange too. I feel like a man in a...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 16, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/16/2023 - Walking the castle walls
As I age, especially these last few years closing in on sixty, I perceive an interesting gap widening between my body and my mind. It’s a...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 10, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/10/2023 - Reinventing ourselves
Yumiko is moving faster than me into her new life. She’s found what she plans to do and who she wishes to be and has decided how she will...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 9, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/09/2023 - The longest day yet
My days have begun to slow on their own. As I’d aged from my twenties through my fifties it seemed life slowly sped up. But now, things...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 8, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/08/2023 - “I like to walk and think”
I’ve begun to stop waiting for retirement. What this means is that I’ve begun enacting my new way of life now, while still enmeshed in my...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 27, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 08/27/2023 - A heavy poem *
The ocean has grown cold. Very cold. Cold like winter. It burns my head when I first get in. And it’s painful and a struggle to swim...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 30, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/30/2023 - Duty: 30 years of labor
The ocean here has turned a corner of sorts, wrapping itself into summer in earnest, giving up its caprice, and the seeming will and...
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Kurt Bell
Jan 26, 20232 min read
Day 54 ocean swim
One more day of work before vacation. I think the teams have everything under control. I noticed positive Teams chatter after I’d logged...
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Kurt Bell
Jan 24, 20232 min read
Running across the bottom of the sea
The tide is very low tonight... I feel like I’m running over and across the bottom of the sea. Miles glide by like sailing. #GoingAlone...
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Kurt Bell
Jan 19, 20232 min read
Day 49 ocean swim
The storms have passed and our winter beach has returned to it’s familiar attitude and ways. It’s good to run again down and into the ...
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Kurt Bell
Jan 2, 20232 min read
Day 40 ocean swim
First swim of the year. Incredible winds. But nevermind. Cold water. Nevermind. Pain in my joints, damn arthritis. Nevermind. Age ...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 16, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 12/15/2022 - A settling peace of mind
No swim yesterday, had to work instead. I Certainly missed it. Maybe I’ll swim twice tomorrow to make up. Retirement has been on my mind...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 6, 20222 min read
Day 22 ocean swim
Warm skin. This winter sun speaks today of September and April. ”Stay for a while” it seems to say. Enjoy a few minutes with the waning...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 2, 20222 min read
Day 21 ocean swim
I missed doing this yesterday. Work kept me late. I actually left the house after dark to go for a swim anyway, Yumiko commenting “you...
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