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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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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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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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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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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Kurt Bell
- Apr 27, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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