Going Alone

A Stoic theory of life adventure

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    STOIC POETRY | Wiping glasses with an empty mind
    Kurt Bell
    • Jul 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    STOIC POETRY | Wiping glasses with an empty mind

    It is a difficult thing to wipe my glasses while doing nothing else. My mind, my deep and inner mind, knows how to do this chore without...
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    STOIC POETRY | My mind playing tricks on me alone in the desert at night
    Kurt Bell
    • May 5, 2020
    • 1 min

    STOIC POETRY | My mind playing tricks on me alone in the desert at night

    My anxiety rises as I walk alone though the dark desert more than a mile from Siberia and on my way into the Deep Water Wilderness....
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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 | My slower footsteps may not delay the orbit of the sun
    Kurt Bell
    • Oct 26, 2019
    • 1 min

    STOIC POETRY | My slower footsteps may not delay the orbit of the sun

    How much distance do we travel when we stand still? How far and fast do we go while asleep in our beds? And how hasty our journey even...
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    STOIC POETRY | A job well done
    Kurt Bell
    • Oct 11, 2019
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | A job well done

    October 11, 2019 Dear Eric, I think we all desire to do well. And by this I mean to not just get by, but to complete our work to the...
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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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