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THE GOOD LIFE – A Human Operating System – 02-15-18
The Good Life Meditation is my daily effort of recounting, considering and developing my personal life objectives and principals. I perform the action of verbally listing and describing these points each day, typically at dawn, as a start and readiness to the coming day. SIX OBJECTIVES 1. Be Always Ready for Death 2. The Good and Effective Use of Time 3. The Development and Maintenance of Good, Sound Principals 4. The Cultivation of Good Emotional Reactions 5. The Perfor

Kurt Bell
Feb 15, 20184 min read


The Good Life – A human operating system 01-26-18
The desert offers no comfort or reassurance of truth or certainty in the things we believe; which must instead stand or fall to ruin on their own merit, or lack thereof. The Good Life Meditation is my daily effort of recounting, considering and developing my personal life objectives and principals. I perform the action of verbally listing and describing these points each day, typically at dawn, as a start and readiness to the coming day. SIX OBJECTIVES 1. Be Always Ready for

Kurt Bell
Feb 10, 20184 min read


The Good Life – A human operating system
The Good Life Meditation is my daily effort of recounting, considering and developing my personal life objectives and principals. I perform the action of verbally listing and describing these points each day, typically at dawn, as a start and readiness to the coming day. SIX OBJECTIVES 1. Be Always Ready for Death 2. The Good and Effective Use of Time 3. The Development and Maintenance of Good, Sound Principals 4. The Cultivation of Good Emotional Reactions 5. The Perfor

Kurt Bell
Jan 22, 20184 min read


The anxiety hike – Going Alone
Sharing the way I’m going to tell you the way to a place where I’ve encountered The Great Indifference, though I suspect the very telling will spoil the way. If you follow my path you’ll likely find nothing but sand, and waste, and heat; all the composite bits of what you’re after without the substance of what’s not there. My guidance is the problem. The fact that you’ve followed me through my words to the place I found alone, and in a sense, lost. You’ll need that bit yourse

Kurt Bell
Nov 14, 201730 min read


The Good Life – A human operating system
The Good Life Meditation is my daily effort of recounting, considering and developing my personal life objectives and principals. I perform the action of verbally listing and describing these points each day, typically at dawn, as a start and readiness to the coming day. FIVE OBJECTIVES 1. The Good and Effective Use of Time 2. The Development and Maintenance of Good, Sound Principals 3. The Cultivation of Good Emotional Reactions 4. The Performance of Good Actions 5. Rec

Kurt Bell
Nov 10, 20174 min read


The Deep Water hike – Going Alone
I’m pleased with the first formal camp site I’ve established at the near edge of the Deep Water wilderness. The site is 1.5 miles north of the ghost town of Siberia, at the top of a low granite rise. The view here is exceptional, looking both back towards Siberia, where the lights of long freight trains can be seen slowly moving across the dark desert, and forward towards the depths of Deep Water, where there are utterly no sign of humanity, besides the long-forgotten remains

Kurt Bell
Oct 17, 20172 min read


The Americanization of Emily
.. On May 1st, 2015 I met my wife and daughter at Los Angeles International airport after they arrived to join me in starting our new lives in the United States. I’m an American citizen, born and raised in Southern California. My wife Yumiko is Japanese and from the seaside city of Shizuoka, which is very near Mt. Fuji. Our daughter Emily is a mixed race child which Japanese people refer to as “hafu” meaning half Japanese. In 2003, two years after her birth, my family and I r

Kurt Bell
Jan 25, 201663 min read


Tackling an American bias – Return to the USA
During our walk yesterday Emily revealed to me her #1 fear in coming to an American high school. This fear has since been dismissed by Emily as just another pesky USA stereotype. I want to capture this quite interesting cultural collision to add to the Return to the USA playlist though I’ll need a little time to think of the right words to avoid misunderstanding and offense. —- My name is Kurt Bell and I am delighted that you have taken some time to share a little of the expe

Kurt Bell
Oct 15, 20152 min read
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