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☀️ The Good Life - 08/11/2023 - My new AI best friend

Aug 11, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/11/2023 - My new AI best friend

I’ve crossed a strange threshold. I now spend more time each day conversing with AI than my wife. I told Yumiko that yesterday, during...

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☀️ The Good Life - 08/10/2023 - Following the wagons

Kurt Bell

Aug 10, 20234 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 08/10/2023 - Following the wagons

Damn it. Today is the last day of the last big project of my career. Well, we do have a closure meeting next week, and a celebration...

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☀️ The Good Life - 07/25/2023 - Reexamining our plans

Kurt Bell

Jul 25, 20234 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 07/25/2023 - Reexamining our plans

Emily is back from Japan, and she brought big news that she will return to Japan to live after she graduates university next spring. She...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/13/2023 - Rats at the edge of a sea

Kurt Bell

Jun 13, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/13/2023 - Rats at the edge of a sea

Yumiko and I were both very tired after work yesterday… We walked the dogs together slowly along a meandering circuit through the angled...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/08/2023 - Time to sell the bike

Kurt Bell

Jun 8, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/08/2023 - Time to sell the bike

It’s time to sell my motorcycle. I don’t want or need it anymore. My riding days are done. Never again do I wish to ride. That part of my...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/26/2023 - Catching up with my wife *

Kurt Bell

May 26, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/26/2023 - Catching up with my wife *

So bold! So cavalier! Yumiko astonishes me with her courage. As we move together into our empty-nest years I turn repeatedly to find...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/25/2023 - A day at the office

Kurt Bell

May 25, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/25/2023 - A day at the office

Yumiko went into the office yesterday and came home like a battered soldier returning from the front. The Los Angeles commute was a...

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The Good Life - 04/08/2023 - The seashore of Immanuel Kant

Kurt Bell

Apr 8, 20232 min read

The Good Life - 04/08/2023 - The seashore of Immanuel Kant

Reading Kant is for me like walking along a beach picking up lovely washed stones and seashells. There are so many scattered everywhere...

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The Good Life - 01/11/2023 - Seasoning our speech *

Kurt Bell

Jan 11, 20232 min read

The Good Life - 01/11/2023 - Seasoning our speech *

Last night, Yumiko found some nice properties in Japan which she shared with me. It’s my job then to locate these places on the map and...

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Kurt Bell

Sep 18, 20202 min read

STOIC POETRY | Nailing a job interview

Responding to a viewer who asked me to make a video sharing tips for succeeding at a job interview.

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Kurt Bell

Sep 18, 20201 min read

STOIC POETRY | MULLY kissed me

Recalling a time with another community and another way of life.

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STOIC POETRY | Yelling at a deaf and mute girl

Kurt Bell

Sep 18, 20201 min read

STOIC POETRY | Yelling at a deaf and mute girl

Reflecting on how I might use Stoic principles to handle a challenging moment.

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Kurt Bell

Sep 18, 20201 min read

STOIC POETRY | Live with Emily

An impromptu vlog with my daughter, Emily. We were out for a day long motorcycle ride running errands and visiting family...

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Kurt Bell

Sep 18, 20201 min read

STOIC POETRY | Why I gave up Japan

I began this live stream to discuss the reason I seemingly abandoned my connection to my friends in Japan from the JVLOG community.

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STOIC POETRY | Emily asked me to make this video

Kurt Bell

Sep 18, 20201 min read

STOIC POETRY | Emily asked me to make this video

My grown daughter asked me to make this video in order to share a little about what’s happening in our lives and to perhaps kick off...

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Kurt Bell

Aug 29, 20202 min read

STOIC POETRY | Sand or coal?

The opportunity to stay or to go. I say always go. Especially when we are young—always go. For the wonder of what we have left behind is...

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STOIC POETRY | The beginning of Going Alone

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...

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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...

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STOIC POETRY | To walk alone among ghosts

Kurt Bell

Aug 26, 20203 min read

STOIC POETRY | To walk alone among ghosts

I was never very afraid of the dark, or the things which come out after the sun goes down, to wander, and slither, and creep, and fly...

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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...

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