☀️ The Good Life - 10/01/2023 - Roller-coaster time
Age sixty feels a little like arriving at the front of the line at a roller-coaster. The line here’s been long and winding. The park’s...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 30, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/30/2023 - Thunderbird float
After work yesterday I swam far out into the ocean, alone where the water was blue and clear and deep. The sea is chill now like Autumn,...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 29, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/29/2023 - A daily mountain
I always prepare a checklist before the sun rises. Before first light, I have a plan. The list has two columns: one for work on the left...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 28, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/28/2023 - Old man emerging from the sea
A strange thing happened yesterday. I was standing at the water’s edge after my evening swim. Just watching the sea. When suddenly I...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 27, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/27/2023 - Hearing my doctor
I met with a specialist M.D. yesterday who told me I was wrong, and that I shouldn’t be feeling pain where I claim to be feeling pain. At...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 26, 20233 min read
☀️ 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 24, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/24/2023 - softypapa is back
Softypapa seems to be back. I thought I was done with that guy, moved on, become someone else. Yet, the more I prepare for Japan the more...
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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 18, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/18/2023 - Ultrasound today
Ultrasound today to find out what’s up with this walnut-sized thing inside me. That’s in the afternoon, while I have a difficult meeting...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 17, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/17/2023 - Walking like I’ve already arrived
My walking has changed. I used to walk like I needed to be somewhere. Not so much anymore. Now, I walk like I’ve mostly already...
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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 15, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/15/2023 - A life apart
A nice thing about growing old is the gradual lifting of the weight of responsibility. It’s a challenging change however, if there is...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 14, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/14/2023 - “No Dr. Jones”
During our evening walk yesterday, Yumiko and I discussed the online business she plans to run from Japan. She’s up to forty-three...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 13, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/13/2023 - Slipping quietly out the back
It’s becoming harder now to engage deeply at work. Everyone suddenly seems so young. They have mortgages and young kids. Or they’re...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 12, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/12/2023 - A fine day of sailing
This new and fast-growing lump in my body has so far only distracted me from my unwarranted ideas of the future. And that’s a very good...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 11, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/11/2023 - A house near a clinic
Ailments are starting to pile on now—as expected, I guess. I’ll need to take half a day off again today to go check something new out....
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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
Sep 7, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/07/2023 - Summer’s gone
Autumn met me at the beach yesterday. A chill evening wind. Empty sands. A forbidding gray look upon the sea. All summer is gone. And for...
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