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, 20203 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 15, 20202 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 12, 20202 min
STOIC POETRY | The fact that we went—alone
I began my life as a young adult finding things along the way. I went out from the circumstance I knew into life which was not yet mine,...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 11, 20203 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 9, 20201 min
STOIC POETRY | Emily draws The Path of Wildness
Emily has produced another drawing for the book. This is an image of The Path of Wildness, which begins and ends nowhere, and is the...
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Kurt Bell
Aug 5, 20203 min
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...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 6, 20201 min
STOIC POETRY | BOOK READING - Going Alone - The Path of Wildness
The Path of Wildness is easy to find... It is the course of a stream, and a beast's track through the woods; leaves blown in the wind,...
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Kurt Bell
Jun 1, 20201 min
STOIC POETRY | Desert wildfire - BMW R 1150 Adventure motovlog
I encountered this desert wildfire two weeks back while en route to Siberia ghost town. The fire was moving fast across the desert scrub,...
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Kurt Bell
May 31, 20201 min
STOIC POETRY | BOOK READING - Going Alone - The Anxiety Hike
This is my May, 2020 book reading of Going Alone. For this month, I chose to read select portions of the chapter titled The Anxiety Hike,...
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Kurt Bell
May 30, 20201 min
STOIC POETRY | The blessing of mortality's embrace
An impressive thing about deserts is the honesty they demand of our age, our health, and our constitution. The desert will not...
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Kurt Bell
Dec 30, 20193 min
STOIC POETRY | Shadow Dividend: The value of breaking our life
Sometimes the best benefit of change is what we lose rather than what we gain.
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Kurt Bell
Nov 23, 20193 min
STOIC POETRY | November desert night hike
November 23 2019 Dear Eric, The very first principle I identified for The Good Life is something call The Path of Wildness. I happened...
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Kurt Bell
Nov 2, 20191 min
STOIC POETRY | The places I've never been
October 31, 2019 Dear Eric, It's a neat trick to neither lament nor attempt to remember the lives we did not live. For we all walk...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 20, 20194 min
STOIC POETRY | The Path of Wildness
October 20, 2019 Dear Eric, I've an opportunity to exercise what is perhaps my earliest principle - The Path of Wildness: The Path of...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 15, 20193 min
STOIC POETRY | Haunting a past life
October 15, 2019 Dear Yumiko, Without costumes, and two weeks too soon, we haunted together yesterday the scene and setting of one of our...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 14, 20192 min
STOIC POETRY | Thinking chicken
October 14, 2019 Dear Eric, What did you wonder over as you walked quietly to your death? I like to imagine you thought of the egg-laying...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 11, 20192 min
STOIC POETRY | A job well done
October 11, 2019 Dear Eric, I think we all desire to do well. And by this I mean to not just get by, but to complete our work to the...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 9, 20192 min
STOIC POETRY | A house called Stoic
October 9, 2019 Dear Eric, My home was found at last with a school and way called Stoic. You never knew this journey, I think. We both...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 8, 20193 min
STOIC POETRY | Be safe... But not too safe
October 8, 2019 Dear Eric, And what of the fearful things of this world...? You knew some of these, and yet you fell at the first major...
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