☀️ The Good Life - 07/17/2023 - Lost swimmer
In the evening last night around dinnertime, I was outside with the dogs and my guitar, watching the sun go down, and I heard several...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 16, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/16/2023 - Long ocean swim
I swam for a long time in the ocean yesterday. My longest swim in years. It was early in the morning, when the air was still and the sea...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 15, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/15/2023 - Reading ahead
I listened to a podcast (link in comments) yesterday, by a thirty-something year old American man living in Shizuoka Japan, a young...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 14, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/14/2023 - Texting Emily in Japan
It’s 5:00 AM in California and 9:00 PM tomorrow in Japan, and I’m texting now with my daughter in Kyoto, reading about her impressions of...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 13, 20234 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/13/2023 - Old man struggling in the sea
I’ve been swimming daily now in the ocean for several weeks. My body has changed, growing stronger with the muscles I use to swim, skin...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 12, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/12/2023 - Old woman at the pharmacy
A woman spoke to me at the pharmacy yesterday. We were seated close to one another, waiting for our prescriptions to be called. The woman...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 11, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/11/2023 - Completed my will
I completed my will yesterday. I can’t believe it took me so long to perform this quite important adult task and responsibly. I got...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 10, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/10/2023 - A warm stone to sit upon
I sat in the garden all afternoon yesterday, which is something I could never do before age 59, as I was always before so energetic and...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 9, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/09/2023 - Old woman at the sea
Yesterday, at the beach, a group of three middle-aged adults arrived by the edge of the water, escorting a very old woman to look at the...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 8, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/08/2023 - Ten months notice
Yesterday was a huge day for us. Yumiko told her boss that she’s leaving—in ten months, but that’ll go fast. Yumiko has a key role where...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 7, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/07/2023 - Rounding Cape Horn
In his novel, Two Years Before The Mast, Richard Henry Dana Jr. writes about his 1836, mid-winter experience of rounding Cape Horn in the...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 6, 20231 min read
Mochimune "Seriously?!" Farmhouse for sale in Japan
While browsing for houses this morning before work, I found this beautiful home for sale within our target area. The Google Maps van even...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 6, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/06/2023 - Always ready to die
Beginning today, I will conclude my daily Good Life meditation with an earnest assessment of my readiness to die. In short, asking myself...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 5, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/05/2023 - Fireworks like war
Yesterday was July 4th. And the fireworks here in Huntington Beach were an experience I will never forget, and I wish to never repeat....
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Kurt Bell
Jul 4, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/04/2023 - Watching from my garden
I sat in my yard yesterday evening watching the whole world swirling around me like a great storm. I was reading my book, but also...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 3, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/03/2023 - July 4th weekend
Such a crowd at the beach yesterday… I sat on my towel for a bit and soaked it all up: warm air and a light summer breeze, cool...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 2, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/02/2023 - 2.5 Oyaji
Watching 2.5 Oyaji this morning while finishing my GLM. It’s so much fun seeing Hiko Saemon and Victor Boggio again for the first time in...
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Kurt Bell
Jul 1, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 07/01/2023 - Less ambition *
It’s good now to leave my ambition in the rear-view mirror. It was always a small and very slight thing, my ambition—nothing to it...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 30, 20233 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/30/2023 - Duty: 30 years of labor
The ocean here has turned a corner of sorts, wrapping itself into summer in earnest, giving up its caprice, and the seeming will and...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 29, 20232 min read
☀️ The Good Life - 06/29/2023 - No more CPAP machine
I’ve decided to not use the CPAP machine which my doctor prescribed for me. I’m going to call the company today that sent me the device...
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