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 27, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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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 22, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Reading good books
I once rose late each day to meander life in search of tidbits to consume: news, gossip, politics, and the shared things of the appetites...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 21, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | The life of faith—
What effort is involved in holding a position of faith? The work is in the restraint needed to protect our belief from doubt. We strive...
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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 13, 2020
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | The season of philosophy
As a young man, my ideas resembled the ideas of others, and my writing was an imperfect transcription of what I'd learned. My time then...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 11, 2020
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | When our finding days are done
Before I was alive I'm pretty sure I simply did not exist. Oh sure, the stuff of which I am made was around, and the energy which courses...
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Kurt Bell
- Aug 10, 2020
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | Going outside
There's this world where I live... And where others like me live. We are there together always. Such a nice place: with the things we...
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Kurt Bell
- Jul 17, 2020
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | The grounding of goodness
It is said that good actions are their own reward; bearing an immediate and lasting fruit of nearly tangible well-being unto at least the...
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Kurt Bell
- Nov 12, 2019
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | The Principle of Public Speaking
November 12, 2019 Dear Eric, I recently added a new principle to The Good Life which I call the Principle of Public Speaking. The idea is...
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Kurt Bell
- Nov 4, 2019
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | To experience the cold and the dark
November 4, 2019 Dear Eric, I have noticed a new trend in my thinking and writing... I've been coming upon the theme of fire often. Not...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 27, 2019
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Covering ears and eyes
October 27, 2019 Dear Eric, Nice try, that... Though maybe you will have the last laugh. But I think you left us on the promise of...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 25, 2019
- 2 min
STOIC POETRY | Steve Irwin, dead at forty-four
October 25, 2019 Dear Eric, Though you lived few years, I think you lived many days. As you were around much during the time when you...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 24, 2019
- 4 min
STOIC POETRY | Life as a distraction
October 24, 2019 Dear Eric, Do you remember the flashy show we made of our youth? No, of course, you don't. You can't remember...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 23, 2019
- 4 min
STOIC POETRY | A seat at the flame
October 23, 2019 Dear Eric, The subject of life meaning never crossed our young minds. We were perhaps simply too young then. Our...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 21, 2019
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | Try more. Fail more.
October 21, 2019 Dear Eric, The old adage of "better to burn out than to fade away" comes to mind when I think of your short life. You...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 19, 2019
- 3 min
STOIC POETRY | A plan of life and death
October 19, 2019 Dear Eric, I write these words now almost twenty years to the day since I completed my story of you and Joe-Bob, sharing...
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Kurt Bell
- Oct 16, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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