LIVE Book Illustration - Going Alone - For Jan S. in Germany
Join me while I personalize a copy of Going Alone before sending it along on its way to a customer in Germany. #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife...
top of page
Search
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...
39 views0 comments
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...
22 views0 comments
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...
34 views0 comments
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...
19 views0 comments
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...
23 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Aug 20, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | The news which is never old
I awoke today to headlines of war, and gossip, and scandal, and the rise of stocks and advertisements for soap, and a 30% chance of rain...
28 views0 comments
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...
23 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Aug 15, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | The upward ground
"...and the very slope of the hill on which my house is placed, seemed to say, Forward!" -Henry David Thoreau I accept life as hard. I...
24 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Aug 14, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | The bullseye aim
Whenever I strive, I always fall short. For the fact of striving makes me miss the mark. It would be better to become educated, without...
32 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Aug 13, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | The season of philosophy
As a young man, my ideas resembled the ideas of others, and my writing was an imperfect transcription of what I'd learned. My time then...
16 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Aug 9, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Emily draws The Path of Wildness
Emily has produced another drawing for the book. This is an image of The Path of Wildness, which begins and ends nowhere, and is the...
5 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Aug 5, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | A brief time to truly live
The Great Indifference exists wherever we are not distracted by ourselves. It is the substance of the universe that isn't—not empty...
21 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Aug 4, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | More to life than living
There is so much to occupy the time of life. So much to do. So many people to know, and love, and pass the time together with. One thing...
15 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Jul 27, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | A prison of consequence
I keep forgetting - fooling myself, really - that I could be in any circumstance other than the one in which I find myself now. It's fun...
26 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Jul 23, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Walking the shore with seashells in my hand
I have such a small and precious set of values - objectives and principles to guide my life. So very few. Each one is precious to me, as...
65 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Jul 21, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Necessary and sufficient
Necessity suggests a condition which must be met in order for a proposition to be true, while sufficiency guarantees the proposition is,...
20 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Jul 15, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Such a life to live
How much more decorous a possession than honest self-reflection; though there is nothing to see in such wealth besides the owner's...
35 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Jul 14, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | Finding a new nest
Yumiko and I decided to downsize after Emily left to begin life on her own. Our own move began just two days after Emily left our home on...
106 views0 comments
Kurt Bell
Jul 9, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Reading the Bible every day
Waking up early is a very good use of time; for it reminds us soon that we are still alive and provides an opportunity to bring in a full...
25 views0 comments
bottom of page