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STOIC POETRY | Taking my own medicine
I made this video at Dana Point Harbor in Dana Point, California. I begin the video simply to share a little bit about the surroundings,...

Kurt Bell
Sep 29, 20201 min read
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STOIC POETRY | My work in America
I was asked to share about the work that I do now since returning to the United States. I decided to elaborate with the story of how the opp

Kurt Bell
Sep 20, 20201 min read
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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...

Kurt Bell
Aug 17, 20202 min read
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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...

Kurt Bell
Aug 15, 20202 min read
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STOIC POETRY | The bullseye aim
Whenever I strive, I always fall short. For the fact of striving makes me miss the mark. It would be better to become educated, without...

Kurt Bell
Aug 14, 20202 min read
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STOIC POETRY | A brief time to truly live
The Great Indifference exists wherever we are not distracted by ourselves. It is the substance of the universe that isn't—not empty...

Kurt Bell
Aug 5, 20203 min read
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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...

Kurt Bell
Aug 4, 20202 min read
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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...

Kurt Bell
Aug 3, 20202 min read
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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...

Kurt Bell
Jul 31, 20202 min read
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STOIC POETRY | Remembering my people at dawn
Morning is a time to remember the people in our lives. If not our very first thought, then at least after we are fully awake. Recall each...

Kurt Bell
Jul 29, 20202 min read
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STOIC POETRY | The way things are likely to be
Our personal nature is our most visible evidence that our will is never fully free: as how many forces of my personal being - my...

Kurt Bell
Jul 26, 20202 min read
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STOIC POETRY | Ad Aster and The Great Indifference
Yumiko and I watched a movie last night called Ad Aster, starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. We enjoyed the film, which is a science...

Kurt Bell
Jul 7, 20202 min read
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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...

Kurt Bell
Nov 12, 20193 min read
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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...

Kurt Bell
Oct 10, 20193 min read
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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
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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
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