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 13, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | The pain of the empty nest
Who knew becoming empty-nesters was so painful? Surely, neither Yumiko or I did. And who knew how fast the sense of absence and loss...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 12, 20203 min read
STOIC POETRY | Moving Emily into her new place
July 11th, 2020 was the last day our daughter lived at home with Yumiko and me. Emily has been with us a long time, since November 25th,...
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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
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 2, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | The places I've never been
October 31, 2019 Dear Eric, It's a neat trick to neither lament nor attempt to remember the lives we did not live. For we all walk...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 26, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | My slower footsteps may not delay the orbit of the sun
How much distance do we travel when we stand still? How far and fast do we go while asleep in our beds? And how hasty our journey even...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 15, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Haunting a past life
October 15, 2019 Dear Yumiko, Without costumes, and two weeks too soon, we haunted together yesterday the scene and setting of one of our...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 13, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Quiet remembrance of the truth
October 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I expect you discovered Stoic principles without knowing they were such, as ideas like these are natural to...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 11, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | A job well done
October 11, 2019 Dear Eric, I think we all desire to do well. And by this I mean to not just get by, but to complete our work to the...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 10, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Prepared to arrive
October 10, 2019 Dear Eric, You not only knew the exact place and time of your death but you indeed even walked there. You went alone. I...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 9, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | A house called Stoic
October 9, 2019 Dear Eric, My home was found at last with a school and way called Stoic. You never knew this journey, I think. We both...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 7, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Die alive
October 7, 2019 Dear Eric, Every genuine adventure ends in a new life. How many lives can be lived in a lifetime? One is enough...as long...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 6, 20194 min read
STOIC POETRY | Back into the woods
October 6, 2019 Dear Yumiko, There's investment in adventure which yields return throughout our remaining days. For me, this is...
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