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STOIC POETRY | A Stoic returning home
I might go out Into life, To see what is there, And then return in peace. Or, I might stay, Seeking peace; Wondering always... What there...

Kurt Bell
Apr 25, 20201 min read


STOIC POETRY | November desert night hike
November 23 2019 Dear Eric, The very first principle I identified for The Good Life is something call The Path of Wildness. I happened...

Kurt Bell
Nov 23, 20193 min read


STOIC POETRY | The places I've never been
October 31, 2019 Dear Eric, It's a neat trick to neither lament nor attempt to remember the lives we did not live. For we all walk...

Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20191 min read


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...

Kurt Bell
Oct 26, 20191 min read


STOIC POETRY | Becoming a nihilist
October 17, 2019 Dear Eric, It's not possible to ever fully return from a solitary venture into the deep desert. The mountains, yes. The...

Kurt Bell
Oct 17, 20191 min read


STOIC POETRY | Away from the fire
October 16, 2019 Dear Eric, To the best of my knowledge, you never once went truly alone into the wild. But that's no surprise, as few...

Kurt Bell
Oct 16, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Haunting a past life
October 15, 2019 Dear Yumiko, Without costumes, and two weeks too soon, we haunted together yesterday the scene and setting of one of our...

Kurt Bell
Oct 15, 20193 min read


STOIC POETRY | Thinking chicken
October 14, 2019 Dear Eric, What did you wonder over as you walked quietly to your death? I like to imagine you thought of the egg-laying...

Kurt Bell
Oct 14, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Leaves upon the sea
October 12, 2019 Dear Eric, Would you ever have not taken your own life? Though I do not believe in fate, I'm convinced you had no real...

Kurt Bell
Oct 12, 20192 min read


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...

Kurt Bell
Oct 11, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Prepared to arrive
October 10, 2019 Dear Eric, You not only knew the exact place and time of your death but you indeed even walked there. You went alone. I...

Kurt Bell
Oct 10, 20193 min read


STOIC POETRY | A house called Stoic
October 9, 2019 Dear Eric, My home was found at last with a school and way called Stoic. You never knew this journey, I think. We both...

Kurt Bell
Oct 9, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Be safe... But not too safe
October 8, 2019 Dear Eric, And what of the fearful things of this world...? You knew some of these, and yet you fell at the first major...

Kurt Bell
Oct 8, 20193 min read


STOIC POETRY | Die alive
October 7, 2019 Dear Eric, Every genuine adventure ends in a new life. How many lives can be lived in a lifetime? One is enough...as long...

Kurt Bell
Oct 7, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Back into the woods
October 6, 2019 Dear Yumiko, There's investment in adventure which yields return throughout our remaining days. For me, this is...

Kurt Bell
Oct 6, 20194 min read


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...

Kurt Bell
Oct 5, 20198 min read


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...

Kurt Bell
Oct 4, 20193 min read


STOIC POETRY | Many places to sit, nowhere to rest
October 3, 2019 Dear Eric, I think you could have rested quite comfortably upon a log, or a big rock, or on the sand, or a seat at the...

Kurt Bell
Oct 3, 20193 min read


STOIC POETRY | Sailing backwards
October 2, 2019 Dear Eric, What is the cost of yesterday? The cost is now. What is the value of yesterday? The value is maturity - but...

Kurt Bell
Oct 2, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Go into evil
October 1, 2019 Dear Eric, Good and evil never crossed our minds; and we certainly never attempted to define these concepts or what...

Kurt Bell
Oct 1, 20193 min read
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