Solitude by the Salton Sea: A Month of Reflection at Bombay Beach
I’m a little disappointed that I won’t be living at the edge of the Salton Sea in the middle of summer. Maybe I’ll ask AI to write it up?
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Kurt Bell
- Jul 4, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | A passenger on a bus
The principle of The Pirate Ride suggests that free will is an illusion created by our seeming sense of the options which life presents...
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Kurt Bell
- Jun 11, 2020
- 5 min
STOIC POETRY | The Desert Father Solitude
En route to Siberia ghost town, I’ve stopped for shelter within the skeletal remains of a Route 66 gas station. The wind today is hard...
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Kurt Bell
- May 31, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | BOOK READING - Going Alone - The Anxiety Hike
This is my May, 2020 book reading of Going Alone. For this month, I chose to read select portions of the chapter titled The Anxiety Hike,...
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Kurt Bell
- May 30, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | The blessing of mortality's embrace
An impressive thing about deserts is the honesty they demand of our age, our health, and our constitution. The desert will not...
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Kurt Bell
- May 26, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | I did something dumb
Venturing too far and too long into the desert during midday after the Desert Killer has returned is something I know better than to do,...
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Kurt Bell
- May 25, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | THE GOOD LIFE | A Human Operating System | 05-08-20
I'd made the foolish mistake of venturing into the desert further than I should on a day when I should not and past the point I should...
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Kurt Bell
- May 23, 2020
- 1 min
BOOK READING - Going Alone - The Anxiety Hike
In addition to writing chapters for the new book, I also use my time at Siberia ghost town to record audio chapters for my last book....
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Kurt Bell
- May 15, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Sighting The Great Indifference - Sea Room by Adam Nicolson
I'm not sure if it's reassuring or not to discover sightings by others of The Great Indifference in the landscapes of their exploration....
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Kurt Bell
- May 14, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | An urgency to life
Every time I go to Siberia I can sense my diminishing capacity to withstand the world as it is and always will be; harsh, raw, deadly and...
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Kurt Bell
- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | A visitor at the Siberia Writing Bridge
While at Siberia this past weekend I discovered I'd had a visitor. Someone had actually come, and had made their way from the ghost town...
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Kurt Bell
- May 6, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | REVIEW | Outdoor Research Helium Bivy | Camping alone in California's Mojave Desert
Open desert mid-adventure review of my Outdoor Research Helium Bivy. I've had this Bivy for a few years now and it's become my go-to...
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Kurt Bell
- May 5, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Finding a lost desert mining camp alone at night
My perennial desert nighttime destination is the lost and deserted desert mining camp called "Campo #1". Like Siberia ghost town, I lay...
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Kurt Bell
- May 4, 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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Kurt Bell
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | Return to Siberia on Thursday, May 7th
My name is Kurt Bell. You can learn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone. Be safe... But not too safe. #Adventure #desert...
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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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Kurt Bell
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | Walking through the desert alone at night
A long walk alone into the dark desert with no companion, no guide, no certainty and no companions. My name is Kurt Bell. You can learn...
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Kurt Bell
- Apr 21, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | Discovering a lost desert mining structure at night
Several miles into the desert at night I've found the remnants and memory of a long past desert mining adventure. What ever did this man hav
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Kurt Bell
- Apr 18, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | A young man alone in the desert
I saw this young man alone in the desert some miles outside Palm Springs, California. He'd made a life for himself on his own terms -...
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Kurt Bell
- Apr 8, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | Not upsetting a frightened old woman
“For whilst anger is the foe of reason, it nevertheless does not arise in any place where reason cannot dwell.” -Seneca Today I...
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