☀️ The Good Life - 08/04/2023 - Hovering over the Send button
It was 8:05 PM yesterday as my mouse cursor hovered over the Send button. I paused, and took a deep breath. This was it. My last big...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 3, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 08/03/2023 - Summit day
Today is a big day for me. It’s huge, in fact. By some measure (watch the video to learn how) my career ends today. If my working life...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 2, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 08/02/2023 - Deliberate sailing
Every past life transition has happened without my knowing. I went from child to adult, unexpected; single, to married, to father like a...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 1, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 08/01/2023 - Growing distant
Week by week I’m loosening the connections which bind and hold me to the great machine of contemporary society. This isn’t a deliberate...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 31, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/31/2023 - Large ray
I met an enormous stingray yesterday, at least three times bigger than usual. I was down at the bottom of the sea, diving under a big...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 30, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/30/2023 - A long swim along the coast
A powerful day yesterday. At dawn, I went to the beach with my flippers and jumped headlong into the sea. The waves were large, and I...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 29, 20233 min read
FAUX RAMBLER No. 1 SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2023.
On the Balance of Pleasure: An Examination into the Perils of Intemperance and the Merits of Moderation ---- In vino veritas, in aqua...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 29, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/29/2023 - Emily’s last year of school
Another semester of Emily’s school is paid for. One more to go, and then we’re done! We didn’t save enough for her college when she was...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 28, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/28/2023 - Siberia at 116
It was 116 degrees at Siberia ghost town yesterday. A few years back, and I’d have felt a longing to be out there. No more... I don’t...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 27, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/27/2023 - The age of discretion
There’s an interesting sense of quiet that’s descending upon my life. Nothing much has changed. The fray at work continues—though it’s...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 26, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/26/2023 - Climbing Everest
I’m sleeping every night now, straight through, from the moment I rest my head on my pillow at 9:00 PM until the alarm sounds at 4:00...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 25, 20234 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/25/2023 - Reexamining our plans
Emily is back from Japan, and she brought big news that she will return to Japan to live after she graduates university next spring. She...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 24, 20233 min read
☀️ Life's Strife: Aria's Dilemma.
softypapa: Let’s assume a universe in which oblivion is the goal of every creature. Yet, life is tolerated in order to have the...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 24, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/24/2023 - Emily returns
Our daughter is over the Aleutian islands now. She just purchased the Airplane WIFI, as I saw the credit card charge flash by on my...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 23, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/23/2023 - When I grow up
Emily’s childhood is really done. It’s taken me a bit for that fact to settle in. But, with university nearly over and her life path...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 22, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/22/2023 - Ready to die
My life’s first objective is to be always ready to die. It’s what I strive for daily. To live and be in such a way as to be prepared to...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 21, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/21/2023 - Retirement training
I took the day off work to learn how to retire. The place where I work offers classes for those at the end of their careers, in order to...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 20, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/20/2023 - Six months alone
Six months. That’s how long Yumiko and I will be apart. Yumiko will have just half a year to establish our new life in Japan before I...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 19, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/19/2023 - Relaxing more at work
I’ve discovered a funny new superpower at work, a temporary, ephemeral force which has only recently emerged, and will be gone soon when...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 18, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/18/2023 - Three questions
I’ve added a challenging question to my morning routine. I ask myself if I am ready to die. The complete answer depends upon three...
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