The Good Life - 12/27/2022 - Alone for donuts
I built a sandcastle at the beach yesterday. It was a silly thing to do at my age, but I was very cold after my swim, and I wasn’t ready...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 27, 20222 min read
Day 35 ocean swim
Yumiko sent me to the beach today. It was after lunch, with some shopping yet to do, and she said ”Don’t you want to go for a swim?” So ...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 26, 20223 min read
The Good Life - 12/26/2022 - An evening to remember
Yesterday was very nice. A lovely Christmas Day. In the evening, before dinner, Yumiko and I walked to the end of the pier to watch the...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 25, 20221 min read
Day 33 ocean swim
Merry Christmas! I received today the good fortune of another day of life. I promise I won’t waste it. #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife #Purpose...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 25, 20222 min read
LIVE Book Illustration - Going Alone - For Jan S. in Germany
Join me while I personalize a copy of Going Alone before sending it along on its way to a customer in Germany. #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 25, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 12/25/2022 - Merry Christmas
The old body is being a bit of a grump now on Christmas Day. The doctor confirmed my growing joint pain is arthritis, which feels more...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 25, 20222 min read
LIVE book reading - Going Alone - The Anxiety Hike
It’s seven AM here on the Pacific Coast and time for another live reading of my book Going Alone. Today, it’s chapter five, The Anxiety ...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 23, 20223 min read
Day 32 ocean swim
This count up of days is more accurately a count down of remaining good days. But time has nearly always been important to me. That...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 23, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 12/23/2022 - Running down
The coffee was slow to kick in this morning, which is no big deal as it’s Friday and get to start work a half hour later than usual....
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Kurt Bell
Dec 22, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 12/22/2022 - Working from work *
Moving quick this morning, I’ve got somewhere to go—working from the office in fact, a real treat these days. No, I’m not one for working...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 22, 20222 min read
Day 31 ocean swim
It’s the first day of winter and today’s swim was a very cold and dark one. My last meeting of the afternoon finished late, and after it...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 21, 20224 min read
The Good Life - 12/21/2022 - Broken seagull *
Life floored me a little yesterday when, after my swim, I met a broken seagull all alone on the sand, dragging a bloody wing across the...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 21, 20222 min read
Day 30 ocean swim
I took the afternoon off work today to see my doctor, which left time for arrival at the beach about an hour ahead of schedule. Not much...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 20, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 12/20/2022 - When life is “done”
My life is "done" now when I complete these videos each morning. It’s interesting to me how ending these daily videos with the words “my...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 19, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 12/19/2022 - Facing Monday
Some Mondays… It takes effort sometimes for me to tackle a Monday in the way it deserves, or at least the in the way I choose to think a...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 19, 20223 min read
Day 29 ocean swim
If you look closely you can see two figures by the water as I run towards the sea. They are a pair of teenage girls who’d been ...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 18, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 12/18/2022 - The Principle of Family
I’ve added a new principal to The Good Life creed, that of Family, and the sub-principle of Catalyst. These were part and parcel of the...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 18, 20222 min read
Day 28 ocean swim
Three days missed… And now, even a relatively warm winter day like today feels quite cold. Just last week I was coming here in the wind...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 18, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 12/17/2022 - Sub-principle of family
No swim again yesterday. Duty called. And I, always, heed my duty. I think I’d have made a pretty good soldier, as I respond to duty with...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 16, 20223 min read
The Good Life - 12/16/2022 - Year end party
We’re past the company holiday party, which always feels to me like rounding a corner into the new year. Since I know I’m leaving the...
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