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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 | Selecting the right picture frame
September 30, 2019 Dear Eric Looking back now from the vantage point of three-decades, I can see that we both lived and portrayed lives...

Kurt Bell
Sep 30, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Getting off the boat
September 28, 2019 Dear Eric, I wonder who you became before you were no more? I only met you that one time after our lives parted ways...

Kurt Bell
Sep 28, 20196 min read


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...

Kurt Bell
Sep 26, 20193 min read


STOIC POETRY | Holding our breath
September 25, 2019 Dear Eric, How did you engage your mind during those final minutes of life before the lights went out for good? You...

Kurt Bell
Sep 25, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Safety is never free
September 24, 2019 Dear Eric, You clearly cherished something above your own well-being, which you decided to forgo in favor of better...

Kurt Bell
Sep 24, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Life in the open
September 23, 2019 Dear Eric, You were never one to hide... But then you were so young you perhaps had little idea what there was to hide...

Kurt Bell
Sep 23, 20193 min read


STOIC POETRY | Wide margins
September 22, 2019 Dear Eric, How wide were the margins of your life? Not wide enough, I'd guess, given the fact that you left absolutely...

Kurt Bell
Sep 22, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | The Stoic Life
September 21, 2019 Dear Eric, Equanimity is the only reward worth pursuing - though we can never gain this treasure by pursuit, less...

Kurt Bell
Sep 21, 20191 min read


STOIC POETRY | Live afraid, die afraid
September 15, 2019 Dear Eric, Were you very afraid before you died? You knew it was coming. I'd tried to talk you out of it weeks before....

Kurt Bell
Sep 15, 20192 min read


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...

Kurt Bell
Sep 13, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | I always want to turn back
September 12, 2019 Dear Eric, Every time... Every. Single. Time... Every time I go to the desert, or to the mountains, or to the sea, I...

Kurt Bell
Sep 12, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | A note from adventure
September 6, 2019 Dear Eric, I’m typing you this note with some difficulty from a tent in the deep desert. There's just one-bar of...

Kurt Bell
Sep 6, 20191 min read


STOIC POETRY | To die in doubt
September 3, 2019 Dear Eric, Can you imagine how much less my confidence now, than when we once conferred together on so many subjects of

Kurt Bell
Sep 3, 20192 min read
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