Going Alone

A Stoic theory of life adventure

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    STOIC POETRY | When our finding days are done
    Kurt Bell
    • Aug 11, 2020
    • 3 min

    STOIC POETRY | When our finding days are done

    Before I was alive I'm pretty sure I simply did not exist. Oh sure, the stuff of which I am made was around, and the energy which courses...
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    STOIC POETRY | An urgency to life
    Kurt Bell
    • May 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | An urgency to life

    Every time I go to Siberia I can sense my diminishing capacity to withstand the world as it is and always will be; harsh, raw, deadly and...
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    STOIC POETRY | Finding a lost desert mining camp alone at night
    Kurt Bell
    • May 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | Finding a lost desert mining camp alone at night

    My perennial desert nighttime destination is the lost and deserted desert mining camp called "Campo #1". Like Siberia ghost town, I lay...
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    STOIC POETRY | COVID-19 and Stoic Apathy
    Kurt Bell
    • Apr 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | COVID-19 and Stoic Apathy

    The arrival of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an opportunity to exercise the Stoic virtue of Apathy in the face of what we cannot easily...
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    STOIC POETRY | The Death of Mad Mike Hughes
    Kurt Bell
    • Feb 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | The Death of Mad Mike Hughes

    I got the news on Sunday, February 23rd, 2020 that Mike Hughes had died. "Mad Mike" was killed while piloting his latest home-made rocket...
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    STOIC POETRY | Life in the open
    Kurt Bell
    • Sep 23, 2019
    • 3 min

    STOIC POETRY | Life in the open

    September 23, 2019 Dear Eric, You were never one to hide... But then you were so young you perhaps had little idea what there was to hide...
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    STOIC POETRY | Coming in from the cold
    Kurt Bell
    • Sep 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | Coming in from the cold

    September 8, 2019 Dear Eric, I think I know why people don't want to die. It's because they know there's nothing for us after life is done.
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    ABOUT

    Going Alone was begun by Kurt Bell in an effort to help others understand and manage  the recognition of the apparent indifference of the universe to our well being, happiness or even our existence, and to find ways to make a good life in spite of this fact.

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