Kurt BellAug 22, 20202 minSTOIC POETRY | Reading good booksI once rose late each day to meander life in search of tidbits to consume: news, gossip, politics, and the shared things of the appetites...
Kurt BellAug 20, 20201 minSTOIC POETRY | The news which is never oldI 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...
Kurt BellJul 10, 20201 minSTOIC POETRY | The work I do before the work I must doAll memorable events, I should say, transpire in the morning time and in morning atmosphere. -Henry David Thoreau There is a season in...
Kurt BellJul 6, 20203 minSTOIC POETRY | My retirement missionNext 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...
Kurt BellMay 2, 20201 minSTOIC POETRY | Editing the new bookWork 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...
Kurt BellApr 28, 20202 minSTOIC POETRY | COVID-19 and Stoic ApathyThe arrival of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an opportunity to exercise the Stoic virtue of Apathy in the face of what we cannot easily...
Kurt BellApr 26, 20201 minSTOIC POETRY | "Population of One" A young woman living all alone in the desert of Cisco, UtahI discovered a fellow desert ghost town ghost today in a woman living alone in the deserted railroad community of Cisco, Utah. I can...
Kurt BellFeb 27, 20201 minSTOIC POETRY | Choosing live musicEvery weekday evening - during this strange life and temporary life I now live away from my family - I typically have dinner alone at a...
Kurt BellOct 5, 20198 minSTOIC POETRY | Winter writingOctober 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...
Kurt BellOct 4, 20193 minSTOIC POETRY | Life at an oasisOctober 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...
Kurt BellSep 30, 20192 minSTOIC POETRY | Selecting the right picture frameSeptember 30, 2019 Dear Eric Looking back now from the vantage point of three-decades, I can see that we both lived and portrayed lives...
Kurt BellSep 4, 20192 minSTOIC POETRY | Teaching children to live wellSeptember 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
Kurt BellAug 13, 20192 minSTOIC POETRY | Going QuietAugust 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