The Good Life - 03/20/2023 - Falling out of the parade *
I was thinking today how this prolonged illness is making me fall behind in the parade. Not yet. Not really. Though I feel it’s happening...
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Kurt Bell
- 1 day ago
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY - You can have that
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
- 1 day ago
- 3 min
The Good Life - 03/19/2023 - Japan mountain market trucks
I drove over a hundred miles yesterday and only barely fell asleep once, at a traffic light, less than a mile from home. I didn’t...
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Kurt Bell
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
Red Roof House for sale in Atami Japan
Here’s a tiny little place that we looked at in Japan. By nearly all standards this place is too old and small and way too full of...
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Kurt Bell
- 4 days ago
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/17/2023 - Salad dressing
Yumiko and I have so far failed in our efforts to contact the owner of the one house in Japan which we’d hoped to buy. But we’ll keep...
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Kurt Bell
- 5 days ago
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/16/2023 - suddenly asleep
Suddenly asleep… That’s what happens now when I sit in this chair. It happened just now, after recording this video and with my thumb...
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Kurt Bell
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/15/2023 - Trevor’s big day
There’s a very old man where I live now. I see him like a chimp sees the humans walking by its cage. The old man limps past my chimp cage...
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Kurt Bell
- 7 days ago
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/14/2023 - Forcing myself to behave professionally
Yumiko joined me at the beach yesterday. It was a cold and blustery evening, and we walked together from Seventeenth Street to lifeguard...
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Kurt Bell
- Mar 13
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/13/2023 - Daylights Savings Time is kicking my butt
That was a challenging weekend. The body keeps telling me it’s done, despite my best efforts to lure it safely back to good health with...
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Kurt Bell
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Rambler 39 - The unhappiness of women, whether single or married - Dr. Johnson - Tue. July 31, 1750
Samuel Johnson reflects on the condition and state of opportunity and choice for women in mid-18th century England. Rambler 39 - The...
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Kurt Bell
- Mar 12
- 2 min
LIVE book reading - Going Alone - Introduction
I’m back at the beach today for a second try (after failing yesterday due to rain). Having completed one full reading of Going Alone from...
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Kurt Bell
- Mar 12
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY - Being whole in our communication
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
- Mar 10
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/10/2023 - Sufficient, if not excellent *
There were kites at the beach yesterday, enormous kites, down by the pier, soaring near, high and steady like great beasts swimming in a...
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Kurt Bell
- Mar 9
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/09/2023 - To watch an approaching storm *
I’ve realized something interesting about this frustrating cognitive decline, that it is less a decline than a slowing, a reduction in...
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Kurt Bell
- Mar 8
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/08/2023 - I did my duty
Yumiko asked me yesterday if anyone would notice if we silently slipped away from America. It was during our lunchtime dog walk, when we...
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Kurt Bell
- Mar 7
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/07/2023 - To finish our work
Such a nice visit from Emily yesterday. She appeared as from nowhere on a Monday (she’d warned us she was coming the day before, though...
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Kurt Bell
- Mar 6
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/06/2023 - Round two
Round two: Really feeling bad again. I checked the CDC website and learned that it is not uncommon for those with Covid to feel bad again...
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Kurt Bell
- Mar 5
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/05/2023 - Choking dog *
Life ambushed me three times this week, caught me once, ok twice, though I struggled free. I’m more nimble now that I’m old. Able to step...
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Kurt Bell
- Mar 4
- 2 min
LIVE book reading - Going Alone - Last bits
It’s time for my first live book reading since before going to Japan. This morning, I’ll read the final bits of my book, GoingAlone....
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Kurt Bell
- Mar 3
- 2 min
The Good Life - 03/01/2023 - Horror comes for us all *
I slept soundly and deep last night, which surprised me for a Tuesday headed into Wednesday, the heart of the work week, the deep end of...
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