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Kurt Bell
Nov 11, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/11/2022 - A sound night’s sleep
Two weeks in at the new place and a big and scary project at work complete. No wonder I slept well last night. But, I’m sure my mind will...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 10, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/10/2022 - An immediate fear
A rough day is a relative thing. Today dawned difficult for me, with a new injury, challenges at work, a toothbrush dropped behind the...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 10, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/09/2022 - Day after election
I participated in Democracy yesterday, as both a citizen and a public servant, facilitating both the expression of my will and operation...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 10, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/08/2022 - A reaction engine
As a young man I reacted to the world in nearly thoughtless accord with expectation, attending college (poorly), working hard at my...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 7, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/07/2022 - A visit from the old me
Sometime, often really, I miss the mark of the life course I’ve set for myself, including the small and seemingly incidental decisions...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 6, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/06/2022 - Lost goods
I slept in this morning. The extra rest was nice. Maybe I am a little overwhelmed from the last month of readiness and then the...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 6, 20222 min read
The Good Life - 11/05/2022 - Settling in
Today will be more about settling in than change. The new house is becoming a home, with what little stuff we’ve kept settling into place...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 6, 20221 min read
STOIC POETRY - An ocean of well-being
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 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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