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Thoughts after surgery
Yesterday’s surgery was an eye-opening experience for me on several fronts: first, tackling the onset of my own inevitable bodily...

Kurt Bell
Aug 26, 20221 min read


STOIC POETRY | Dr. Johnson sights The Great Indifference
I am always on the lookout in my reading for evidence of others who have spotted and reported on the quality of nature which I found in...

Kurt Bell
Sep 10, 20214 min read


STOIC POETRY | The past is in the possession of death
Death possesses us piecemeal. We are taken slowly, day by day, hour by hour, and across every minute of our life. We start dying the...

Kurt Bell
Sep 9, 20213 min read


STOIC POETRY | When yesterdays are nevermore
There is this folly, Eric, by which we wait to live until death has nearly arrived. The habit begins young, when mortality seems a...

Kurt Bell
Sep 7, 20212 min read


STOIC POETRY | My dead companions
I've formed a small association of companions Eric, of whom I know you would approve. Sadly, like you, they are all dead and I must...

Kurt Bell
Sep 6, 20214 min read


STOIC POETRY | indifferentia
I met a new word today... A very interesting word, to be sure. This new vocabulary for me is indifferentia. I found this word while...

Kurt Bell
Aug 21, 20213 min read


STOIC POETRY | Trapped
Thinking out loud about those of us who did not pursue our dreams of youth and who are later wondering if there’s any chance of a second...

Kurt Bell
Oct 5, 20201 min read
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