☀️ The Good Life - 07/07/2023 - Rounding Cape Horn
In his novel, Two Years Before The Mast, Richard Henry Dana Jr. writes about his 1836, mid-winter experience of rounding Cape Horn in the...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 6, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/06/2023 - Always ready to die
Beginning today, I will conclude my daily Good Life meditation with an earnest assessment of my readiness to die. In short, asking myself...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 5, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/05/2023 - Fireworks like war
Yesterday was July 4th. And the fireworks here in Huntington Beach were an experience I will never forget, and I wish to never repeat....
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Kurt Bell
Jul 4, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/04/2023 - Watching from my garden
I sat in my yard yesterday evening watching the whole world swirling around me like a great storm. I was reading my book, but also...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 3, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/03/2023 - July 4th weekend
Such a crowd at the beach yesterday… I sat on my towel for a bit and soaked it all up: warm air and a light summer breeze, cool...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 2, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/02/2023 - 2.5 Oyaji
Watching 2.5 Oyaji this morning while finishing my GLM. It’s so much fun seeing Hiko Saemon and Victor Boggio again for the first time in...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 1, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/01/2023 - Less ambition *
It’s good now to leave my ambition in the rear-view mirror. It was always a small and very slight thing, my ambition—nothing to it...
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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
Jun 29, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/29/2023 - No more CPAP machine
I’ve decided to not use the CPAP machine which my doctor prescribed for me. I’m going to call the company today that sent me the device...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 28, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/28/2023 - My neighbor Bob
My neighbor two doors down is falling fast. His name is Bob. We talk almost daily as he shuffles past the window where I work. I’ve been...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 27, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/27/2023 - A poem at dawn *
I always begin my day reading a poem. In this way, I’m guaranteed to finish the day better than yesterday no matter what happens. A...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 26, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/26/2023 - A brunch too far
Wow! Yumiko and I really overdid it yesterday. I’d picked a restaurant that was way outside and beyond anything we’d ever experienced....
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Kurt Bell
Jun 25, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/25/2023 - Tough boys
There is a group of youths I meet most afternoons now. Five or six teenage boys and a couple of young girls. They sit together near the...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 24, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/24/2023 - Headless seal
There was a dead seal on the beach yesterday. A shark had clearly taken a sizable bite out of its side, and the seal’s head was missing....
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Kurt Bell
Jun 23, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/23/2023 - The horror next door *
A very difficult day yesterday. Something utterly horrifying happened to our next door neighbor—beyond belief. I was outside before...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 22, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/22/2023 - Lifeguard rescue *
Yesterday, I was swimming alone after work out past the breakers, when I suddenly heard a voice next to me say “please come back to...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 21, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/21/2023 - Texting with Emily
My daughter is talking (texting) at me from Japan this morning. She’s planning her time and experiences there after her Tokyo internship...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 20, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/20/2023 - Down from the highest peak
For a time yesterday I was standing on one of life’s several summits, looking back across the landscape already crossed. I was the oldest...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 20, 20232 min read
Day 62 ocean swim - Floating out there in the sea
Day 62 ocean swim: Today is so much easier than yesterday. It’s my second day running into the sea since recovering from my injury....
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Kurt Bell
Jun 19, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/19/2023 - My surfing days are done *
I learned a few things about myself yesterday by surfing. First, I learned that I can become a surfer again if I want to. At age...
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