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☀️ The Good Life - 06/24/2023 - Headless seal
There was a dead seal on the beach yesterday. A shark had clearly taken a sizable bite out of its side, and the seal’s head was missing....

Kurt Bell
Jun 24, 20232 min read
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☀️ The Good Life - 06/14/2023 - My tumor is benign *
The hole in my body is nearly healed. The gash in my side where a surgeon cut me open to dig out a tumor to see what it is. It’s benign....

Kurt Bell
Jun 14, 20232 min read
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☀️ The Good Life - 06/12/2023 - In a barrel towards Niagara
It’s nice getting old. There’s no age better than now, though I expect tomorrow might be better still. Sure, I’m a bit crippled with...

Kurt Bell
Jun 12, 20233 min read
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☀️ 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...

Kurt Bell
May 28, 20233 min read
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☀️ 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...

Kurt Bell
May 24, 20233 min read
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The Good Life - 12/11/2022 - A rainy Sunday morning *
It’s a rainy day. Good thing our housework and shopping are done. It’s tempting now to rest, to sit on the sofa and watch a movie. But...

Kurt Bell
Dec 11, 20223 min read
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Day 26 ocean swim
I stumbled and cut my leg open on my way to the beach. warm blood trickling down to my ankle. No biggie. The sea’ll sort this out. And so...

Kurt Bell
Dec 9, 20222 min read
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Day seven ocean swim
I used my lunch break today for a swim. The midday mood at the beach is different from evening; warmer, more beachie, less foreboding...

Kurt Bell
Nov 15, 20222 min read
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STOIC POETRY | Nailing a job interview
Responding to a viewer who asked me to make a video sharing tips for succeeding at a job interview.

Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20202 min read
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STOIC POETRY | MULLY kissed me
Recalling a time with another community and another way of life.

Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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STOIC POETRY | Yelling at a deaf and mute girl
Reflecting on how I might use Stoic principles to handle a challenging moment.

Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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STOIC POETRY | Live with Emily
An impromptu vlog with my daughter, Emily. We were out for a day long motorcycle ride running errands and visiting family...

Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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STOIC POETRY | Why I gave up Japan
I began this live stream to discuss the reason I seemingly abandoned my connection to my friends in Japan from the JVLOG community.

Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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STOIC POETRY | Emily asked me to make this video
My grown daughter asked me to make this video in order to share a little about what’s happening in our lives and to perhaps kick off...

Kurt Bell
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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STOIC POETRY | Sand or coal?
The opportunity to stay or to go. I say always go. Especially when we are young—always go. For the wonder of what we have left behind is...

Kurt Bell
Aug 29, 20202 min read
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STOIC POETRY | The beginning of Going Alone
I remember when I first thought up the idea of Going Alone. My family and I were living then in Japan, and I was making YouTube videos...

Kurt Bell
Aug 28, 20206 min read
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STOIC POETRY | No more free will
I once imagined I was steering my own life in a very full and meaningful way. Full control. Nearly complete, adult, and independent...

Kurt Bell
Aug 27, 20203 min read
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STOIC POETRY | To walk alone among ghosts
I was never very afraid of the dark, or the things which come out after the sun goes down, to wander, and slither, and creep, and fly...

Kurt Bell
Aug 26, 20203 min read
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STOIC POETRY | Sailing the inner sea
There is a sea within us upon which circumstance presses restless winds night and day; forming crests and troughs, moving over the face...

Kurt Bell
Aug 25, 20203 min read
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STOIC POETRY | Infrastructure
There is an inward architecture which we create through the fact and consequence of our decisions and actions, which become the...

Kurt Bell
Aug 24, 20201 min read
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