#Stoicism 8/22

☀️ The Good Life - 05/30/2023 - Afraid of the sea

May 30, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/30/2023 - Afraid of the sea

Surgery today. I’m having a growing tumor removed from my abdomen, along with its friend, another bump growing nearby. This is the season...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/29/2023 - Ready for “I do”

Kurt Bell

May 29, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/29/2023 - Ready for “I do”

I’m nervous about today. Today’s the darn day. The day we might decide to buy that old house in Japan. Picking a place to buy now feels...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/28/2023 - Staid at dawn

Kurt Bell

May 28, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/28/2023 - Staid at dawn

Another sound night of sleep. Deep, dark and dreamless. A sleep like death is such a delight to awake from. Morning after the deepest...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/27/2023 - Touring the farmhouse

Kurt Bell

May 27, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/27/2023 - Touring the farmhouse

I was up late last night to tour the outside of the farmhouse with Yumiko and her family. The experience was strange and tactile. Like...

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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 - 05/24/2023 - Sharpened mind

Kurt Bell

May 24, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/24/2023 - Sharpened mind

I awoke this morning with the sharpest mind I can remember. Where did this come from? Clarity of thought like my twenties. Halcyon days...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/23/2023 - Principle of Home

Kurt Bell

May 23, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/23/2023 - Principle of Home

I stood in the ocean yesterday genuinely afraid. I was all alone. There was nobody nearby. The lifeguard towers were all empty. And very...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/22/2023 - Emily goes away

Kurt Bell

May 22, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/22/2023 - Emily goes away

A summer without Emily. I guess we’d better get used to it, seeing as our life courses may soon diverge. But Emily will always have a...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/21/2023 - Wagons west

Kurt Bell

May 21, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/21/2023 - Wagons west

Yumiko and I talk together now the way I imagine a frontier couple might have once talked after they’d resolved to leave the east on a...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/20/2023 - Japan or America?

Kurt Bell

May 20, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/20/2023 - Japan or America?

I had a conversation yesterday with Emily which I’d been waiting for since she was born. It was while Yumiko was cooking dinner, and...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/19/2023 - At the edge of the sea

Kurt Bell

May 19, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/19/2023 - At the edge of the sea

After work yesterday I went to the beach to sit on the sand and behold… Waves, as big as a winter storm were marching up from the...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/18/2023 - Days to come

Kurt Bell

May 18, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/18/2023 - Days to come

Less and less. The stress of work is slowly fading away in the same way that the stress of university began to fade in the months before...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/17/2023 - Glacier into the sea

Kurt Bell

May 17, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/17/2023 - Glacier into the sea

I must type quickly this morning as I’m having my heart scanned at 6:45 and I don’t want to be late. I rather enjoy such trips to the...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/16/2023 - Beginning to fall apart *

Kurt Bell

May 16, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/16/2023 - Beginning to fall apart *

I injured myself again yesterday. Entering the sea after work I jumped over a wave and twisted my foot. Now, I’m limping from both sides....

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/15/2023 - Ten again in the sea *

Kurt Bell

May 15, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/15/2023 - Ten again in the sea *

Such moments! I found myself, yesterday, back in the sea of my childhood; a warm, frothing surf, pulsing with great forward energies...

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☀️ The Good Life - 05/14/2023 - Empty nest

Kurt Bell

May 14, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 05/14/2023 - Empty nest

We’re moving Emily out of her university dormitory this weekend. She’ll stay home with us for a week and then she’s gone, off to Japan...

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The Good Life - 05/13/2023 - Citizen of a larger world

Kurt Bell

May 13, 20232 min read

The Good Life - 05/13/2023 - Citizen of a larger world

Great news! Emily gets to remain both American and Japanese. The Japanese government has issued her a new passport without demanding that...

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The Good Life - 05/12/2023 - American or Japanese?

Kurt Bell

May 12, 20233 min read

The Good Life - 05/12/2023 - American or Japanese?

It’s a milestone day for my daughter. She’s going to the Japanese consulate today to pick up her new passport. There’s a chance they’ll...

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The Good Life - 05/11/2023 - Garden muse

Kurt Bell

May 11, 20232 min read

The Good Life - 05/11/2023 - Garden muse

Such a nice evening yesterday. After sundown, before dinner, I sat in the yard with my dog and strummed my dad’s guitar while making up...

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