The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Body on the beach
A dead man washed up on the beach this week. He’d been out there a long time. It was those big waves, I think. The ones that scare me....
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Kurt Bell
- 2 days ago
- 2 min
The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Candlelit years
We’ve new neighbors. A young family. There’s a small boy and a little white dog named Bunny. They radiate such energy and illumination!...
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Kurt Bell
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
The Good Life - 06/01/2023 - Intervention *
Intervention! Yumiko and I were intervened, stopped in our tracks, prevented by our daughter from making a big mistake. I was sitting in...
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Kurt Bell
- 4 days ago
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/31/2023 - After surgery
Yesterday went well. My surgery is complete and I should know more in a week. My thinking is still active though I’ve little now to write...
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Kurt Bell
- 5 days ago
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/30/2023 - Afraid of the sea
Surgery today. I’m having a growing tumor removed from my abdomen, along with its friend, another bump growing nearby. This is the season...
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Kurt Bell
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/29/2023 - Ready for “I do”
I’m nervous about today. Today’s the darn day. The day we might decide to buy that old house in Japan. Picking a place to buy now feels...
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Kurt Bell
- May 28
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/28/2023 - Staid at dawn
Another sound night of sleep. Deep, dark and dreamless. A sleep like death is such a delight to awake from. Morning after the deepest...
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Kurt Bell
- May 27
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/27/2023 - Touring the farmhouse
I was up late last night to tour the outside of the farmhouse with Yumiko and her family. The experience was strange and tactile. Like...
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Kurt Bell
- May 26
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/26/2023 - Catching up with my wife *
So bold! So cavalier! Yumiko astonishes me with her courage. As we move together into our empty-nest years I turn repeatedly to find...
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Kurt Bell
- May 25
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/25/2023 - A day at the office
Yumiko went into the office yesterday and came home like a battered soldier returning from the front. The Los Angeles commute was a...
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Kurt Bell
- May 24
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/24/2023 - Sharpened mind
I awoke this morning with the sharpest mind I can remember. Where did this come from? Clarity of thought like my twenties. Halcyon days...
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Kurt Bell
- May 23
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/23/2023 - Principle of Home
I stood in the ocean yesterday genuinely afraid. I was all alone. There was nobody nearby. The lifeguard towers were all empty. And very...
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Kurt Bell
- May 22
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/22/2023 - Emily goes away
A summer without Emily. I guess we’d better get used to it, seeing as our life courses may soon diverge. But Emily will always have a...
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Kurt Bell
- May 21
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/21/2023 - Wagons west
Yumiko and I talk together now the way I imagine a frontier couple might have once talked after they’d resolved to leave the east on a...
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Kurt Bell
- May 20
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/20/2023 - Japan or America?
I had a conversation yesterday with Emily which I’d been waiting for since she was born. It was while Yumiko was cooking dinner, and...
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Kurt Bell
- May 19
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/19/2023 - At the edge of the sea
After work yesterday I went to the beach to sit on the sand and behold… Waves, as big as a winter storm were marching up from the...
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Kurt Bell
- May 18
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/18/2023 - Days to come
Less and less. The stress of work is slowly fading away in the same way that the stress of university began to fade in the months before...
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Kurt Bell
- May 17
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/17/2023 - Glacier into the sea
I must type quickly this morning as I’m having my heart scanned at 6:45 and I don’t want to be late. I rather enjoy such trips to the...
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Kurt Bell
- May 16
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/16/2023 - Beginning to fall apart *
I injured myself again yesterday. Entering the sea after work I jumped over a wave and twisted my foot. Now, I’m limping from both sides....
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Kurt Bell
- May 15
- 2 min
The Good Life - 05/15/2023 - Ten again in the sea *
Such moments! I found myself, yesterday, back in the sea of my childhood; a warm, frothing surf, pulsing with great forward energies...
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