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☀️ The Good Life - 06/28/2023 - My neighbor Bob

Jun 28, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/28/2023 - My neighbor Bob

My neighbor two doors down is falling fast. His name is Bob. We talk almost daily as he shuffles past the window where I work. I’ve been...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/27/2023 - A poem at dawn *

Kurt Bell

Jun 27, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/27/2023 - A poem at dawn *

I always begin my day reading a poem. In this way, I’m guaranteed to finish the day better than yesterday no matter what happens. A...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/26/2023 - A brunch too far

Kurt Bell

Jun 26, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/26/2023 - A brunch too far

Wow! Yumiko and I really overdid it yesterday. I’d picked a restaurant that was way outside and beyond anything we’d ever experienced....

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/25/2023 - Tough boys

Kurt Bell

Jun 25, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/25/2023 - Tough boys

There is a group of youths I meet most afternoons now. Five or six teenage boys and a couple of young girls. They sit together near the...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/24/2023 - Headless seal

Kurt Bell

Jun 24, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/24/2023 - Headless seal

There was a dead seal on the beach yesterday. A shark had clearly taken a sizable bite out of its side, and the seal’s head was missing....

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/23/2023 - The horror next door *

Kurt Bell

Jun 23, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/23/2023 - The horror next door *

A very difficult day yesterday. Something utterly horrifying happened to our next door neighbor—beyond belief. I was outside before...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/22/2023 - Lifeguard rescue *

Kurt Bell

Jun 22, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/22/2023 - Lifeguard rescue *

Yesterday, I was swimming alone after work out past the breakers, when I suddenly heard a voice next to me say “please come back to...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/21/2023 - Texting with Emily

Kurt Bell

Jun 21, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/21/2023 - Texting with Emily

My daughter is talking (texting) at me from Japan this morning. She’s planning her time and experiences there after her Tokyo internship...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/20/2023 - Down from the highest peak

Kurt Bell

Jun 20, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/20/2023 - Down from the highest peak

For a time yesterday I was standing on one of life’s several summits, looking back across the landscape already crossed. I was the oldest...

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Day 62 ocean swim - Floating out there in the sea

Kurt Bell

Jun 20, 20232 min read

Day 62 ocean swim - Floating out there in the sea

Day 62 ocean swim: Today is so much easier than yesterday. It’s my second day running into the sea since recovering from my injury....

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/19/2023 - My surfing days are done *

Kurt Bell

Jun 19, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/19/2023 - My surfing days are done *

I learned a few things about myself yesterday by surfing. First, I learned that I can become a surfer again if I want to. At age...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/18/2023 - Surfing today

Kurt Bell

Jun 18, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/18/2023 - Surfing today

I’m going surfing this morning. Something I haven’t done in over thirty years. I’m already prepared for failure; ready to simply float...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/17/2023 - All along the coast

Kurt Bell

Jun 17, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/17/2023 - All along the coast

Exhausted… But what a fun day yesterday was. Hiko is here, and we shared the day and I showed him around. I overdid it, probably, which...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/15/2023 - Hikosaemon is here

Kurt Bell

Jun 16, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/15/2023 - Hikosaemon is here

Today, I rendezvous with the past—my JVLOG past. That once lived life in Japan as a peripheral member of a loose community of ex-pat...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/15/2023 - Free to enter the sea

Kurt Bell

Jun 15, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/15/2023 - Free to enter the sea

Today I’m free again and can go back into the sea. The wound in my side is fully healed and my damaged leg is much better. However, I’ve...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/14/2023 - My tumor is benign *

Kurt Bell

Jun 14, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/14/2023 - My tumor is benign *

The hole in my body is nearly healed. The gash in my side where a surgeon cut me open to dig out a tumor to see what it is. It’s benign....

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/13/2023 - Rats at the edge of a sea

Kurt Bell

Jun 13, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/13/2023 - Rats at the edge of a sea

Yumiko and I were both very tired after work yesterday… We walked the dogs together slowly along a meandering circuit through the angled...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/12/2023 - In a barrel towards Niagara

Kurt Bell

Jun 12, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/12/2023 - In a barrel towards Niagara

It’s nice getting old. There’s no age better than now, though I expect tomorrow might be better still. Sure, I’m a bit crippled with...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/11/2023 - Higher up the mountain *

Kurt Bell

Jun 11, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/11/2023 - Higher up the mountain *

Today feels like waking up upon a great mountain. The clean, cold air up here is bracing. And the aching muscles of the climb to get here...

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☀️ The Good Life - 06/10/2023 - Return of the Muse

Kurt Bell

Jun 10, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 06/10/2023 - Return of the Muse

Poetry of a sort has joined me at the guitar. Nearly every evening, while Yumiko prepares dinner, I sit in the garden with a glass of red...

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