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Kurt Bell
Nov 6, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/04/2022 - Barking dog
Circumstance got me last night… My guard was down and I found myself reacting beyond reason to an event which was both predictable and ...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 6, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/03/2022 - Old in the bones
My head is back above water now, and I can see the shore roughly a quarter-mile away. The coast here is another alien place, this time...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/02/2022 - Threading a path on a rainy morning
It’s raining hard at the beach this morning. That late autumn rain falling hard from enormous clouds rolling in from the sea. The rain ...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/1/2022 - More tacos
Life chapters fade like a gas station passed on a highway…growing smaller in the mirror each time we look back, details fading, ...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 10/31/2022 - Depth is optional
A new life requires the death of an old life, and death is hard. It’s 4:18 AM and I’ve a long, unfamiliar commute in darkness ahead of...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 10/30/2022 - Goodbye Harold
My neighbor Harold showed up as I was dropping off the key. This man played a part in many of my Good Life videos over the past year and...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 10/29/2022 - All things must end
My last Good Life video in Menifee. I don’t think Yumiko and I will ever again live beyond the marine layer. Time is simply too short....
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20221 min read
STOIC POETRY - A fine life indeed
The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20221 min read
The Good Life - 10/28/2022 - Moving day
It’s move day. And I’m doing The Good Life meditation on the run. The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 10/27/2022 - He bites *
I couldn’t sleep last night. Up, tossing and turning and worrying over things which I may not even be able to recall in a year. I keep...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 10/26/2022 - Tacos for lunch *
I invite horror, or at least the imagination of horror, into my life every day. Truly terrible thoughts, which cause my face to squirm...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 25, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 10/25/2022 - Does death breathe? *
I always worry ahead of someplace new. Every time Yumiko and I change homes I imagine a handful of bad things that might happen in the...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 25, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 10/24/2022 - Very tired this morning *
It’s Monday again and I’m ready for another week of work. Alright, maybe I’m not as ready as I’d like to be… I’m pretty tired actually....
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Kurt Bell
Aug 26, 20221 min read
Thoughts after surgery
Yesterday’s surgery was an eye-opening experience for me on several fronts: first, tackling the onset of my own inevitable bodily...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 10, 20214 min read
STOIC POETRY | Dr. Johnson sights The Great Indifference
I am always on the lookout in my reading for evidence of others who have spotted and reported on the quality of nature which I found in...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 9, 20213 min read
STOIC POETRY | The past is in the possession of death
Death possesses us piecemeal. We are taken slowly, day by day, hour by hour, and across every minute of our life. We start dying the...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 7, 20212 min read
STOIC POETRY | When yesterdays are nevermore
There is this folly, Eric, by which we wait to live until death has nearly arrived. The habit begins young, when mortality seems a...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 6, 20214 min read
STOIC POETRY | My dead companions
I've formed a small association of companions Eric, of whom I know you would approve. Sadly, like you, they are all dead and I must...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 21, 20213 min read
STOIC POETRY | indifferentia
I met a new word today... A very interesting word, to be sure. This new vocabulary for me is indifferentia. I found this word while...
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