STOIC POETRY | Necessary and sufficient
Necessity suggests a condition which must be met in order for a proposition to be true, while sufficiency guarantees the proposition is,...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 20, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Arguing with myself over free will
How best might I prove myself wrong? I have this suspicion, not quite yet a belief perhaps, that free will is an illusion. How can I...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 19, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | Wiping glasses with an empty mind
It is a difficult thing to wipe my glasses while doing nothing else. My mind, my deep and inner mind, knows how to do this chore without...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 18, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Swimming to a park bench by the sea
I swam yesterday in the sea. I swam possibly too far yesterday in the sea, as I am today quite worn and spent. I expect that this is a...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 16, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | An uncomplaining camp
Emotions are a curious thing to ride upon. They jump and jostle and jolt and then rest, before picking up again and tossing all about. As...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 15, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Such a life to live
How much more decorous a possession than honest self-reflection; though there is nothing to see in such wealth besides the owner's...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 14, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | Finding a new nest
Yumiko and I decided to downsize after Emily left to begin life on her own. Our own move began just two days after Emily left our home on...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 10, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | The work I do before the work I must do
All memorable events, I should say, transpire in the morning time and in morning atmosphere. -Henry David Thoreau There is a season in...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 9, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Reading the Bible every day
Waking up early is a very good use of time; for it reminds us soon that we are still alive and provides an opportunity to bring in a full...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 8, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | A time for reinvention
I believe that Yumiko and I are as prepared for our new life together as we might hope to be. With our daughter leaving us this coming...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 7, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | Ad Aster and The Great Indifference
Yumiko and I watched a movie last night called Ad Aster, starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. We enjoyed the film, which is a science...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 6, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | My retirement mission
Next week, our daughter Emily will leave us. As a family, on Saturday, July 11th, we will spend a day moving her few things to an...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 3, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Holding my tongue
During a discussion with a coworker today I realized I had said too much. It would have been better if I had left off speaking after my...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 14, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | The Supercar Solitude
My daughter Emily joined me on this trip after I hired her to draw a map and various illustrations for use with the Going Alone and The...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 14, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | BOOK READING - Going Alone - My god is a Little God
While Emily works to enliven the wastes below the bridge, I relate the final chapter of Going Alone, which both acknowledges and...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 12, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | Emily leaves a message under the Writing Bridge
My daughter joins me at Siberia to learn about the ruins and guess at the stories of the lives which were once lived at this place and...
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Kurt Bell
May 14, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | An urgency to life
Every time I go to Siberia I can sense my diminishing capacity to withstand the world as it is and always will be; harsh, raw, deadly and...
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Kurt Bell
Apr 27, 20202 min read
STOIC POETRY | COVID-19 and Stoic Apathy
The arrival of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an opportunity to exercise the Stoic virtue of Apathy in the face of what we cannot easily...
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Kurt Bell
Apr 25, 20201 min read
STOIC POETRY | A Stoic returning home
I might go out Into life, To see what is there, And then return in peace. Or, I might stay, Seeking peace; Wondering always... What there...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 23, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | November desert night hike
November 23 2019 Dear Eric, The very first principle I identified for The Good Life is something call The Path of Wildness. I happened...
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