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 23, 20194 min read
STOIC POETRY | A seat at the flame
October 23, 2019 Dear Eric, The subject of life meaning never crossed our young minds. We were perhaps simply too young then. Our...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 22, 20195 min read
STOIC POETRY | Minding a sore foot
October 22, 2019 Dear Eric, Our talks back then were so full of optimism. Our youth spoke only of life, and of the optimistic promise of...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 18, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | Up before dawn
October 18, 2019 Dear Eric, Why bother waking if only to then rest with our eyes wide open? Are there not better ways to improve the...
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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 15, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Haunting a past life
October 15, 2019 Dear Yumiko, Without costumes, and two weeks too soon, we haunted together yesterday the scene and setting of one of our...
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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 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 9, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | A house called Stoic
October 9, 2019 Dear Eric, My home was found at last with a school and way called Stoic. You never knew this journey, I think. We both...
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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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Kurt Bell
Oct 3, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Many places to sit, nowhere to rest
October 3, 2019 Dear Eric, I think you could have rested quite comfortably upon a log, or a big rock, or on the sand, or a seat at the...
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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 28, 20196 min read
STOIC POETRY | Getting off the boat
September 28, 2019 Dear Eric, I wonder who you became before you were no more? I only met you that one time after our lives parted ways...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 26, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Dining upon our emotions
September 26, 2019 Dear Eric, You, my friend, were one wont to emotion. Though normally you were riding high atop the joyful bubble of...
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