#Stoicism 7/22

Day 62 ocean swim - Floating out there in the sea

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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☀️ The Good Life - 06/19/2023 - My surfing days are done *

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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☀️ The Good Life - 06/18/2023 - Surfing today

Kurt Bell

Jun 18, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/18/2023 - Surfing today

I’m going surfing this morning. Something I haven’t done in over thirty years. I’m already prepared for failure; ready to simply float...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/17/2023 - All along the coast

Kurt Bell

Jun 17, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/17/2023 - All along the coast

Exhausted… But what a fun day yesterday was. Hiko is here, and we shared the day and I showed him around. I overdid it, probably, which...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/15/2023 - Hikosaemon is here

Kurt Bell

Jun 16, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/15/2023 - Hikosaemon is here

Today, I rendezvous with the past—my JVLOG past. That once lived life in Japan as a peripheral member of a loose community of ex-pat...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/15/2023 - Free to enter the sea

Kurt Bell

Jun 15, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/15/2023 - Free to enter the sea

Today I’m free again and can go back into the sea. The wound in my side is fully healed and my damaged leg is much better. However, I’ve...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/14/2023 - My tumor is benign *

Kurt Bell

Jun 14, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/14/2023 - My tumor is benign *

The hole in my body is nearly healed. The gash in my side where a surgeon cut me open to dig out a tumor to see what it is. It’s benign....

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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 - 06/12/2023 - In a barrel towards Niagara

Kurt Bell

Jun 12, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/12/2023 - In a barrel towards Niagara

It’s nice getting old. There’s no age better than now, though I expect tomorrow might be better still. Sure, I’m a bit crippled with...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/11/2023 - Higher up the mountain *

Kurt Bell

Jun 11, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/11/2023 - Higher up the mountain *

Today feels like waking up upon a great mountain. The clean, cold air up here is bracing. And the aching muscles of the climb to get here...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/10/2023 - Return of the Muse

Kurt Bell

Jun 10, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/10/2023 - Return of the Muse

Poetry of a sort has joined me at the guitar. Nearly every evening, while Yumiko prepares dinner, I sit in the garden with a glass of red...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/09/2023 - No longer very afraid *

Kurt Bell

Jun 9, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/09/2023 - No longer very afraid *

I cannot remember the last time I couldn’t sleep. My nights have become like the nights of my youth. Hard asleep at bedtime and fast...

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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 - 06/07/2023 - A young man at work

Kurt Bell

Jun 7, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/07/2023 - A young man at work

I was at the office yesterday and a young coworker asked about my book. I had a copy in my bag which I signed and gave to him. The smile...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/06/2023 - Life’s a stage

Kurt Bell

Jun 6, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/06/2023 - Life’s a stage

Parenthood now reminds me of the childhood years, in particular the school events where our kid was an actor in the play, participating...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/05/2023 - Log above a stream *

Kurt Bell

Jun 5, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/05/2023 - Log above a stream *

My well being lately seems balanced on a log. I’m like a young boy crossing over a stream on a fallen tree. Altogether, I feel pretty...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Body on the beach

Kurt Bell

Jun 3, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Body on the beach

A dead man washed up on the beach this week. He’d been out there a long time. It was those big waves, I think. The ones that scare me....

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Candlelit years

Kurt Bell

Jun 2, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Candlelit years

We’ve new neighbors. A young family. There’s a small boy and a little white dog named Bunny. They radiate such energy and illumination!...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Intervention *

Kurt Bell

Jun 1, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Intervention *

Intervention! Yumiko and I were intervened, stopped in our tracks, prevented by our daughter from making a big mistake. I was sitting in...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/31/2023 - After surgery

Kurt Bell

May 31, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/31/2023 - After surgery

Yesterday went well. My surgery is complete and I should know more in a week. My thinking is still active though I’ve little now to write...

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