STOIC POETRY | Yelling at a deaf and mute girl
Reflecting on how I might use Stoic principles to handle a challenging moment.
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 28, 2020
- 6 min
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...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 26, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 25, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | Infrastructure
There is an inward architecture which we create through the fact and consequence of our decisions and actions, which become the...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 20, 2020
- 1 min
STOIC POETRY | The news which is never old
I awoke today to headlines of war, and gossip, and scandal, and the rise of stocks and advertisements for soap, and a 30% chance of rain...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 17, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | What there isn't beyond the sea
Life is a little like coming awake on an island beach, naked and screaming and vulnerable and weak. The natives here do care for us, and...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 15, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | The upward ground
"...and the very slope of the hill on which my house is placed, seemed to say, Forward!" -Henry David Thoreau I accept life as hard. I...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 6, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | The best seat in the house
I have long dreamed of a nice, personal room where I can work. A little office at home where I can set up a desk and chair and my stuff,...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 4, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | More to life than living
There is so much to occupy the time of life. So much to do. So many people to know, and love, and pass the time together with. One thing...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 3, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | The virtue of temperance
For what reason is temperance a virtue? Why do the sages live in austerity, and the desert fathers forsake the world, and the poet love...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 1, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Knowing when to stop watching
It is not easy to not watch someone else struggling with life. I am not referring to not seeing them struggle, but not watching them do...
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Kurt Bell
- Jul 31, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Words like flowers upon a table
Words are like clay in the hands of a potter, who might pound together a rough cup and offer it "here!" as an implement of utility. And...
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Kurt Bell
- Jul 16, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | An uncomplaining camp
Emotions are a curious thing to ride upon. They jump and jostle and jolt and then rest, before picking up again and tossing all about. As...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 22, 2019
- 5 min
STOIC POETRY | Minding a sore foot
October 22, 2019 Dear Eric, Our talks back then were so full of optimism. Our youth spoke only of life, and of the optimistic promise of...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 10, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 26, 2019
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | Dining upon our emotions
September 26, 2019 Dear Eric, You, my friend, were one wont to emotion. Though normally you were riding high atop the joyful bubble of...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 13, 2019
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Softypapa's last video
September 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I was so tempted yesterday to title my latest YouTube upload Softypapa's last video. This is due to the...
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