STOIC POETRY | November desert night hike
November 23 2019 Dear Eric, The very first principle I identified for The Good Life is something call The Path of Wildness. I happened...
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Kurt Bell
- Nov 13, 2019
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Bearing well the pain of gluttony
November 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I sometimes - often, in fact - indulge a little too much. The temptation is so innocent a thing...just...
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Kurt Bell
- Nov 12, 2019
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | The Principle of Public Speaking
November 12, 2019 Dear Eric, I recently added a new principle to The Good Life which I call the Principle of Public Speaking. The idea is...
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Kurt Bell
- Nov 6, 2019
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | A good reason to change our mind
November 6, 2019 Dear Eric, I am very good at being wrong. It's a knack, kinda. And I am often wrong on the same decision more than once....
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Kurt Bell
- Nov 4, 2019
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | To experience the cold and the dark
November 4, 2019 Dear Eric, I have noticed a new trend in my thinking and writing... I've been coming upon the theme of fire often. Not...
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Kurt Bell
- Nov 2, 2019
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | The places I've never been
October 31, 2019 Dear Eric, It's a neat trick to neither lament nor attempt to remember the lives we did not live. For we all walk...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 30, 2019
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | The blessing of goodness
October 30, 2019 Dear Eric, Both joy and suffering can yield the same sweet harvest if we know how to winnow the chaff from the grain....
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 29, 2019
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | The blessing of a good defeat
October 29, 2019 Dear Eric, I'd like to tell you the tale of my falling, and my recovery. It's a good tale. And most of us have such a...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 28, 2019
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | Old voices command small audience
October 28, 2019 Dear Eric, When we are young there are many who hear; though as we age there seem fewer to listen. There is something...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 27, 2019
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Covering ears and eyes
October 27, 2019 Dear Eric, Nice try, that... Though maybe you will have the last laugh. But I think you left us on the promise of...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 25, 2019
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Steve Irwin, dead at forty-four
October 25, 2019 Dear Eric, Though you lived few years, I think you lived many days. As you were around much during the time when you...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 24, 2019
- 4 min
STOIC POETRY | Life as a distraction
October 24, 2019 Dear Eric, Do you remember the flashy show we made of our youth? No, of course, you don't. You can't remember...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 23, 2019
- 4 min
STOIC POETRY | A seat at the flame
October 23, 2019 Dear Eric, The subject of life meaning never crossed our young minds. We were perhaps simply too young then. Our...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 22, 2019
- 5 min
STOIC POETRY | Minding a sore foot
October 22, 2019 Dear Eric, Our talks back then were so full of optimism. Our youth spoke only of life, and of the optimistic promise of...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 21, 2019
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | Try more. Fail more.
October 21, 2019 Dear Eric, The old adage of "better to burn out than to fade away" comes to mind when I think of your short life. You...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 20, 2019
- 4 min
STOIC POETRY | The Path of Wildness
October 20, 2019 Dear Eric, I've an opportunity to exercise what is perhaps my earliest principle - The Path of Wildness: The Path of...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 19, 2019
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | A plan of life and death
October 19, 2019 Dear Eric, I write these words now almost twenty years to the day since I completed my story of you and Joe-Bob, sharing...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 18, 2019
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | Up before dawn
October 18, 2019 Dear Eric, Why bother waking if only to then rest with our eyes wide open? Are there not better ways to improve the...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | Becoming a nihilist
October 17, 2019 Dear Eric, It's not possible to ever fully return from a solitary venture into the deep desert. The mountains, yes. The...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 16, 2019
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Away from the fire
October 16, 2019 Dear Eric, To the best of my knowledge, you never once went truly alone into the wild. But that's no surprise, as few...
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