☀️ The Good Life - 09/14/2023 - “No Dr. Jones”
During our evening walk yesterday, Yumiko and I discussed the online business she plans to run from Japan. She’s up to forty-three...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 13, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/13/2023 - Slipping quietly out the back
It’s becoming harder now to engage deeply at work. Everyone suddenly seems so young. They have mortgages and young kids. Or they’re...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 12, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/12/2023 - A fine day of sailing
This new and fast-growing lump in my body has so far only distracted me from my unwarranted ideas of the future. And that’s a very good...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 11, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/11/2023 - A house near a clinic
Ailments are starting to pile on now—as expected, I guess. I’ll need to take half a day off again today to go check something new out....
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Kurt Bell
Sep 10, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/10/2023 - Reinventing ourselves
Yumiko is moving faster than me into her new life. She’s found what she plans to do and who she wishes to be and has decided how she will...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 9, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/09/2023 - The longest day yet
My days have begun to slow on their own. As I’d aged from my twenties through my fifties it seemed life slowly sped up. But now, things...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 8, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/08/2023 - “I like to walk and think”
I’ve begun to stop waiting for retirement. What this means is that I’ve begun enacting my new way of life now, while still enmeshed in my...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 7, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/07/2023 - Summer’s gone
Autumn met me at the beach yesterday. A chill evening wind. Empty sands. A forbidding gray look upon the sea. All summer is gone. And for...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 6, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/06/2023 - Clay at our own wheel
Yumiko and I both have begun to mold ourselves into the people we wish to become. It’s a very alien and strange process and feeling;...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 5, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/05/2023 - Busy woman at the beach
I sat on the sand yesterday for three hours straight, only breaking my meditation twice for a refreshing plunge in the sea. The beach was...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 4, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/04/2023 - Foreign dad
Yumiko and I enjoyed an interesting conversation yesterday about what it’s like to be a Japanese woman married to a non-Japanese man,...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 3, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/03/2023 - Dominoes fall
As I age, I look back on the preceding decades like the acts in a great play which we are all compelled to perform to a greater or lesser...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 2, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/02/2023 - The rain indoors
Rain now in the morning. I can hear it now out there in the dark. But the rain here is never really in earnest, never genuine or very...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 1, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 09/01/2023 - Commencement
At work now everything seems like it’s coming to an end, which feels premature, as I still have fifteen months. I got a new project to...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 31, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 08/31/2023 - Wabi-Sabi Life
Today’s Good Life Meditation was very helpful to me, not only in readying myself for the difficult day ahead, but in laying a firm...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 30, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 08/30/2023 - Storm Force 2
Storm Force 2 at the beach yesterday, which sounds impressive, though it is not: “light breeze”, “small wavelets” or “wind felt on the...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 29, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 08/29/2023 - What a view!
299 days left. I know that the coming paradigm will be little different from the current. Each new life being largely the same as the...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 28, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 08/28/2023 - Objective of Balance
I added a new objective yesterday to The Good Life creed. The objective of Balance is number eight, and will speak to the management of...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 27, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 08/27/2023 - A heavy poem *
The ocean has grown cold. Very cold. Cold like winter. It burns my head when I first get in. And it’s painful and a struggle to swim...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 26, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 08/26/2023 - The other man at the beach
I have a new companion—of sorts. He’s a man maybe five years older than me. He looks Persian, very handsome and distinguished, like a...
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