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STOIC POETRY | The illusion of free will

Aug 15, 20192 min read

STOIC POETRY | The illusion of free will

August 15, 2019 Dear Eric, I think I've made up my mind regarding free will... I don't think we have it. I think free will is an illusion

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STOIC POETRY | Dying Out Loud - Dave Wamock

Kurt Bell

Aug 14, 20191 min read

STOIC POETRY | Dying Out Loud - Dave Wamock

August 14, 2019 Eric, I watched an interesting video yesterday which featured a man named Dave Wamock who was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Ge

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Kurt Bell

Aug 13, 20192 min read

STOIC POETRY | Going Quiet

August 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I've gone quiet on social media... I know you don't know what that is - social media. It's the way people keep in

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STOIC POETRY | Exploring, not searching...

Kurt Bell

Aug 12, 20192 min read

STOIC POETRY | Exploring, not searching...

August 12, 2019 Dear Eric, I had an interesting conversation with someone yesterday - a Christian friend - who commented that he thought I

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Kurt Bell

Jul 28, 20191 min read

STOIC POETRY | Bette Davis House

Reflecting on The Good Life after a nice summertime swim in the sea near the Bette Davis House in Laguna Beach, California. My name is...

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Kurt Bell

Jul 27, 20191 min read

STOIC POETRY | My Bible study is done

Completing my formal study of the Bible.

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Kurt Bell

Jul 23, 20192 min read

STOIC POETRY | Make Every Meeting Count

People won't come back if they think their time may be better spent elsewhere... So, how do we help our team members to believe that the...

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STOIC POETRY | Satisfying the True Believers

Kurt Bell

Jul 22, 20192 min read

STOIC POETRY | Satisfying the True Believers

Customer service has never mattered more...

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STOIC POETRY | Yesterday’s long desert sojourn was a new experience of indifference

Kurt Bell

Jul 6, 20191 min read

STOIC POETRY | Yesterday’s long desert sojourn was a new experience of indifference

Upon further investigation I keep discovering that the cold depth of nature goes further and deeper than I'd ever thought.

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STOIC POETRY | Crossing now from the place...

Kurt Bell

Jul 3, 20191 min read

STOIC POETRY | Crossing now from the place...

I wrote this to describe the feeling I get when I hike away from Siberia ghost town, towards and into the low mountains to the north.

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STOIC POETRY | My muse is blind, deaf, mute and dead

Kurt Bell

Jul 2, 20191 min read

STOIC POETRY | My muse is blind, deaf, mute and dead

My muse is blind, deaf, mute and dead.

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STOIC POETRY | It's flattery to call my muse a corpse...

Kurt Bell

Jul 1, 20192 min read

STOIC POETRY | It's flattery to call my muse a corpse...

It's flattery to call my muse a corpse, as she is so much less...

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STOIC POETRY | I fear no social circumstance...

Kurt Bell

Jun 30, 20191 min read

STOIC POETRY | I fear no social circumstance...

I fear no social circumstance For I've been to Mt. Wildness

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STOIC POETRY | "Poor fortune borne well...

Kurt Bell

Jun 29, 20192 min read

STOIC POETRY | "Poor fortune borne well...

...is good fortune." -Marcus Aurelius I've struggled a bit lately with maintaining my balance through life. It's not a deep issue or...

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Kurt Bell

Jun 15, 20191 min read

STOIC POETRY | Adventure dashboard

My adventure this week was fruitful in many ways, including the addition of several strange and new cryptic runes upon the windshield of...

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STOIC POETRY | Did God Have a Wife? - Book Review

Kurt Bell

Feb 12, 201968 min read

STOIC POETRY | Did God Have a Wife? - Book Review

Last week, I posted that I’d learned that the God of the Bible has a wife. I then received three responses from believers: One person...

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Kurt Bell

Dec 27, 20183 min read

STOIC POETRY | Irrelevance begins early

A great threat to our well-being is the fact that we begin to fade long before we can sense ourselves diminishing. The process begins...

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Kurt Bell

Dec 19, 20181 min read

STOIC POETRY | Empty vessel

I enjoyed an interesting talk with a friend today where we touched briefly on the differing ways in which people pace the moments of...

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Kurt Bell

Dec 15, 20182 min read

STOIC POETRY | Estate sale

I drove past an estate sale today. The very concept brought me back to Japan, and the life I'd formerly lived selling whatever goods...

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Kurt Bell

Dec 14, 20182 min read

STOIC POETRY | Retire at age twenty

Mostly, we think of retirement as something to do at the end of a career. For some, this may turn out to be the end of life... For though...

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