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☀️ The Good Life - 10/05/2023 - Preparing for a tough day at work

Oct 5, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 10/05/2023 - Preparing for a tough day at work

A tough day ahead. Work has suddenly become very difficult again, and I’m struggling to keep my balance. I’m even looking for routes of...

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☀️ The Good Life - 10/04/2023 - Planning an American adventure

Kurt Bell

Oct 4, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 10/04/2023 - Planning an American adventure

Wow! Just seven more months and Yumiko and Emily will be gone... I haven’t really figured out what I will do or how I will live after...

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☀️ The Good Life - 10/03/2023 - Done with distraction

Kurt Bell

Oct 3, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 10/03/2023 - Done with distraction

I’m holding my tongue now more and more at work, minding my words, husbanding my thoughts even, biding my time. I’m still working as hard...

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☀️ The Good Life - 10/01/2023 - Roller-coaster time

Kurt Bell

Oct 1, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 10/01/2023 - Roller-coaster time

Age sixty feels a little like arriving at the front of the line at a roller-coaster. The line here’s been long and winding. The park’s...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/30/2023 - Thunderbird float

Kurt Bell

Sep 30, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/30/2023 - Thunderbird float

After work yesterday I swam far out into the ocean, alone where the water was blue and clear and deep. The sea is chill now like Autumn,...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/29/2023 - A daily mountain

Kurt Bell

Sep 29, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/29/2023 - A daily mountain

I always prepare a checklist before the sun rises. Before first light, I have a plan. The list has two columns: one for work on the left...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/28/2023 - Old man emerging from the sea

Kurt Bell

Sep 28, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/28/2023 - Old man emerging from the sea

A strange thing happened yesterday. I was standing at the water’s edge after my evening swim. Just watching the sea. When suddenly I...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/27/2023 - Hearing my doctor

Kurt Bell

Sep 27, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/27/2023 - Hearing my doctor

I met with a specialist M.D. yesterday who told me I was wrong, and that I shouldn’t be feeling pain where I claim to be feeling pain. At...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/26/2023 - A daily mountain to climb

Kurt Bell

Sep 26, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/26/2023 - A daily mountain to climb

A daily mountain to climb. I’ve expanded Objective number two “The Good Use of Time” of The Good Life creed to include the idea of one...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/24/2023 - softypapa is back

Kurt Bell

Sep 24, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/24/2023 - softypapa is back

Softypapa seems to be back. I thought I was done with that guy, moved on, become someone else. Yet, the more I prepare for Japan the more...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/22/2023 - Outside prison

Kurt Bell

Sep 22, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/22/2023 - Outside prison

I’ve stopped daydreaming. It’s the strangest thing. I’ve also stopped planning, largely. And that’s strange too. I feel like a man in a...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/18/2023 - Ultrasound today

Kurt Bell

Sep 18, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/18/2023 - Ultrasound today

Ultrasound today to find out what’s up with this walnut-sized thing inside me. That’s in the afternoon, while I have a difficult meeting...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/17/2023 - Walking like I’ve already arrived

Kurt Bell

Sep 17, 20232 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/17/2023 - Walking like I’ve already arrived

My walking has changed. I used to walk like I needed to be somewhere. Not so much anymore. Now, I walk like I’ve mostly already...

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Charming Farmhouse in Japan: 90sqm of Space & Garden Oasis 🏠🌳

Kurt Bell

Sep 16, 20231 min read

Charming Farmhouse in Japan: 90sqm of Space & Garden Oasis 🏠🌳

Join Yumiko and me, Kurt Bell, as we explore this charming farmhouse in Japan that's captured our hearts. With a generous 90 square...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/16/2023 - Walking the castle walls

Kurt Bell

Sep 16, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/16/2023 - Walking the castle walls

As I age, especially these last few years closing in on sixty, I perceive an interesting gap widening between my body and my mind. It’s a...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/15/2023 - A life apart

Kurt Bell

Sep 15, 20233 min read

☀️ The Good Life - 09/15/2023 - A life apart

A nice thing about growing old is the gradual lifting of the weight of responsibility. It’s a challenging change however, if there is...

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☀️ The Good Life - 09/14/2023 - “No Dr. Jones”

Kurt Bell

Sep 14, 20233 min read

☀️ 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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/13/2023 - Slipping quietly out the back

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/12/2023 - A fine day of sailing

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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☀️ The Good Life - 09/11/2023 - A house near a clinic

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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