#Stoicism 2/22

☀️ The Good Life - 10/04/2023 - Planning an American adventure

Oct 4, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 10/04/2023 - Planning an American adventure

Wow! Just seven more months and Yumiko and Emily will be gone... I haven’t really figured out what I will do or how I will live after...

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☀️ The Good Life - 10/03/2023 - Done with distraction

Kurt Bell

Oct 3, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 10/03/2023 - Done with distraction

I’m holding my tongue now more and more at work, minding my words, husbanding my thoughts even, biding my time. I’m still working as hard...

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☀️ The Good Life - 10/01/2023 - Roller-coaster time

Kurt Bell

Oct 1, 20232 min read

☀️ 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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/30/2023 - Thunderbird float

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/29/2023 - A daily mountain

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/28/2023 - Old man emerging from the sea

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/27/2023 - Hearing my doctor

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/26/2023 - A daily mountain to climb

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/24/2023 - softypapa is back

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/22/2023 - Outside prison

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/18/2023 - Ultrasound today

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/17/2023 - Walking like I’ve already arrived

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/16/2023 - Walking the castle walls

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/15/2023 - A life apart

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/14/2023 - “No Dr. Jones”

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/13/2023 - Slipping quietly out the back

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/12/2023 - A fine day of sailing

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/11/2023 - A house near a clinic

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/10/2023 - Reinventing ourselves

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/09/2023 - The longest day yet

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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