Going Alone

A Stoic theory of life adventure

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    STOIC POETRY | Reading good books
    Kurt Bell
    • Aug 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | Reading good books

    I once rose late each day to meander life in search of tidbits to consume: news, gossip, politics, and the shared things of the appetites...
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    STOIC POETRY | The news which is never old
    Kurt Bell
    • Aug 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    STOIC POETRY | The news which is never old

    I awoke today to headlines of war, and gossip, and scandal, and the rise of stocks and advertisements for soap, and a 30% chance of rain...
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    STOIC POETRY | The work I do before the work I must do
    Kurt Bell
    • Jul 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    STOIC POETRY | The work I do before the work I must do

    All memorable events, I should say, transpire in the morning time and in morning atmosphere. -Henry David Thoreau There is a season in...
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    STOIC POETRY | My retirement mission
    Kurt Bell
    • Jul 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    STOIC POETRY | My retirement mission

    Next week, our daughter Emily will leave us. As a family, on Saturday, July 11th, we will spend a day moving her few things to an...
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    STOIC POETRY | Editing the new book
    Kurt Bell
    • May 2, 2020
    • 1 min

    STOIC POETRY | Editing the new book

    Work on the new book is progressing slower now, since the arrival of COVID-19 and the shutdown of so much of our society's day-to-day...
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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 | "Population of One" A young woman living all alone in the desert of Cisco, Utah
    Kurt Bell
    • Apr 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    STOIC POETRY | "Population of One" A young woman living all alone in the desert of Cisco, Utah

    I discovered a fellow desert ghost town ghost today in a woman living alone in the deserted railroad community of Cisco, Utah. I can...
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    STOIC POETRY | Choosing live music
    Kurt Bell
    • Feb 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    STOIC POETRY | Choosing live music

    Every weekday evening - during this strange life and temporary life I now live away from my family - I typically have dinner alone at a...
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    STOIC POETRY | Winter writing
    Kurt Bell
    • Oct 5, 2019
    • 8 min

    STOIC POETRY | Winter writing

    October 5, 2019 Dear Eric, There's a place I go to work. It's way out in the desert - almost two-hundred miles from my current home by...
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    STOIC POETRY | Life at an oasis
    Kurt Bell
    • Oct 4, 2019
    • 3 min

    STOIC POETRY | Life at an oasis

    October 4, 2019 Dear Eric, Do we borrow from tomorrow when we live in an imagined better day? Maybe not. Perhaps this is how we make way...
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    STOIC POETRY | Selecting the right picture frame
    Kurt Bell
    • Sep 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | Selecting the right picture frame

    September 30, 2019 Dear Eric Looking back now from the vantage point of three-decades, I can see that we both lived and portrayed lives...
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    STOIC POETRY | Teaching children to live well
    Kurt Bell
    • Sep 4, 2019
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | Teaching children to live well

    September 4, 2019 Dear Eric, What is the end pursuit of virtue? And for that matter what is virtue? I define virtue as the improvement of
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    STOIC POETRY | Going Quiet
    Kurt Bell
    • Aug 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | Going Quiet

    August 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I've gone quiet on social media... I know you don't know what that is - social media. It's the way people keep in
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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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