STOIC POETRY | A gaze that is straight
September 29, 2019 Dear Eric, Your gaze never once appeared to waver. Was this due to your youth? Was that it? Was it the strength and...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 28, 20196 min read
STOIC POETRY | Getting off the boat
September 28, 2019 Dear Eric, I wonder who you became before you were no more? I only met you that one time after our lives parted ways...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 27, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | The low-road to justice
September 27, 2019 Dear Eric, It's too bad our talks together never explored the issue of morality and justice... As I would have enjoyed...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 26, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Dining upon our emotions
September 26, 2019 Dear Eric, You, my friend, were one wont to emotion. Though normally you were riding high atop the joyful bubble of...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 25, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Holding our breath
September 25, 2019 Dear Eric, How did you engage your mind during those final minutes of life before the lights went out for good? You...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 24, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Safety is never free
September 24, 2019 Dear Eric, You clearly cherished something above your own well-being, which you decided to forgo in favor of better...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 23, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Life in the open
September 23, 2019 Dear Eric, You were never one to hide... But then you were so young you perhaps had little idea what there was to hide...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 22, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Wide margins
September 22, 2019 Dear Eric, How wide were the margins of your life? Not wide enough, I'd guess, given the fact that you left absolutely...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 21, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | The Stoic Life
September 21, 2019 Dear Eric, Equanimity is the only reward worth pursuing - though we can never gain this treasure by pursuit, less...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 17, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Henry David Thoreau visits Siberia Ghost Town
September 17, 2019 Dear Eric, I entertained myself while shaving this morning by imagining Henry David Thoreau visiting Siberia ghost...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 16, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | The view from outer-space
September 16, 2019 Dear Eric, The distance between me now, here at home by the sea, and Siberia, is about 200 miles. However, the...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 15, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Live afraid, die afraid
September 15, 2019 Dear Eric, Were you very afraid before you died? You knew it was coming. I'd tried to talk you out of it weeks before....
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Kurt Bell
Sep 14, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | No second chance
September 14, 2019 Dear Eric, There's great satisfaction in success. But only if that success resonates deep and echos back to our ears...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 13, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Softypapa's last video
September 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I was so tempted yesterday to title my latest YouTube upload Softypapa's last video. This is due to the...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 12, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | I always want to turn back
September 12, 2019 Dear Eric, Every time... Every. Single. Time... Every time I go to the desert, or to the mountains, or to the sea, I...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 10, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | The pursuit of virtue
September 10, 2019 Dear Eric, You and I never got around to discussing the concept of nihilism; the idea that life is essentially devoid of
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Kurt Bell
Sep 9, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | My daughter's weekend adventure
September 9, 2019 Dear Eric, My daughter had a fine adventure this past weekend. There was excitement, and fun, and a bit of danger. I could
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Kurt Bell
Sep 8, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Coming in from the cold
September 8, 2019 Dear Eric, I think I know why people don't want to die. It's because they know there's nothing for us after life is done.
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Kurt Bell
Sep 7, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | The Social Principle
September 7, 2019 Dear Eric, I'd remain with my family and people always, if I didn't know there is - and is not - more. So, I go to see the
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Kurt Bell
Sep 6, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | A note from adventure
September 6, 2019 Dear Eric, I’m typing you this note with some difficulty from a tent in the deep desert. There's just one-bar of...
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