The Good Life - 09/24/2023 - softypapa is back
Softypapa seems to be back. I thought I was done with that guy, moved on, become someone else. Yet, the more I prepare for Japan the more...
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Kurt Bell
- 4 days ago
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/22/2023 - Outside prison
I’ve stopped daydreaming. It’s the strangest thing. I’ve also stopped planning, largely. And that’s strange too. I feel like a man in a...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 18
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/18/2023 - Ultrasound today
Ultrasound today to find out what’s up with this walnut-sized thing inside me. That’s in the afternoon, while I have a difficult meeting...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 17
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/17/2023 - Walking like I’ve already arrived
My walking has changed. I used to walk like I needed to be somewhere. Not so much anymore. Now, I walk like I’ve mostly already...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 16
- 1 min
Charming Farmhouse in Japan: 90sqm of Space & Garden Oasis 🏠🌳
Join Yumiko and me, Kurt Bell, as we explore this charming farmhouse in Japan that's captured our hearts. With a generous 90 square...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 16
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/16/2023 - Walking the castle walls
As I age, especially these last few years closing in on sixty, I perceive an interesting gap widening between my body and my mind. It’s a...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 15
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/15/2023 - A life apart
A nice thing about growing old is the gradual lifting of the weight of responsibility. It’s a challenging change however, if there is...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 14
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/14/2023 - “No Dr. Jones”
During our evening walk yesterday, Yumiko and I discussed the online business she plans to run from Japan. She’s up to forty-three...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 13
- 3 min
The Good Life - 09/13/2023 - Slipping quietly out the back
It’s becoming harder now to engage deeply at work. Everyone suddenly seems so young. They have mortgages and young kids. Or they’re...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 12
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/12/2023 - A fine day of sailing
This new and fast-growing lump in my body has so far only distracted me from my unwarranted ideas of the future. And that’s a very good...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 11
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/11/2023 - A house near a clinic
Ailments are starting to pile on now—as expected, I guess. I’ll need to take half a day off again today to go check something new out....
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 10
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/10/2023 - Reinventing ourselves
Yumiko is moving faster than me into her new life. She’s found what she plans to do and who she wishes to be and has decided how she will...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 9
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/09/2023 - The longest day yet
My days have begun to slow on their own. As I’d aged from my twenties through my fifties it seemed life slowly sped up. But now, things...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 8
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/08/2023 - “I like to walk and think”
I’ve begun to stop waiting for retirement. What this means is that I’ve begun enacting my new way of life now, while still enmeshed in my...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 7
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/07/2023 - Summer’s gone
Autumn met me at the beach yesterday. A chill evening wind. Empty sands. A forbidding gray look upon the sea. All summer is gone. And for...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 6
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/06/2023 - Clay at our own wheel
Yumiko and I both have begun to mold ourselves into the people we wish to become. It’s a very alien and strange process and feeling;...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 5
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/05/2023 - Busy woman at the beach
I sat on the sand yesterday for three hours straight, only breaking my meditation twice for a refreshing plunge in the sea. The beach was...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 4
- 3 min
The Good Life - 09/04/2023 - Foreign dad
Yumiko and I enjoyed an interesting conversation yesterday about what it’s like to be a Japanese woman married to a non-Japanese man,...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 3
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/03/2023 - Dominoes fall
As I age, I look back on the preceding decades like the acts in a great play which we are all compelled to perform to a greater or lesser...
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Kurt Bell
- Sep 2
- 2 min
The Good Life - 09/02/2023 - The rain indoors
Rain now in the morning. I can hear it now out there in the dark. But the rain here is never really in earnest, never genuine or very...
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