Stoic Poetry

I took our sick dog Ollie to the doggie E.R. yesterday. The visit was a costly, though worthwhile expense, for Ollie's sake, as well as the deep and meaningful satisfaction of caring for someone you love...whatever the cost. It is a sensation which presses hard on that part of ourselves which desires purpose and meaning in life, which needs are suddenly evident and met in the opportunity to help relieve the suffering of someone we love, or even someone we barely know, or even a stranger - as beneficence cares less for relation than the opportunity to care for and simply relate. The good feelingOf caring for my sick pet,Pursues the circular purposeOf being cared for by my pet...And as I cared for my sick dog, I fulfilled my end of an unspoken bargain between us: a compact of well-being wherein I promise his care in return for my own, which contract Ollie fulfills every day of his life as a member of our family. I kept my end of the bargain in keeping Ollie well through medicine and the care of a skilled doctor, while he helps keep my family well through his companionship and presence in our home. So too, the pursuit of the well-being of others, which is an activity which is challenging, and painful, and costly in many senses of the word, though also rewarding in reinforcing the mutual agreement of social creatures to be there for one another through good times and hard, to care for our sick and dying, to live seemingly for one another, and to pursue together the shared and common purpose of a more universal well-being.

I expect my consciousness is a connect-the-dots affair; a consequence of some trillions of atoms gathered and enlivened through the energy of our nearby star; energy cascading down pathways of chemistry from order towards disarray; assembling matter along the way into blood, muscle and bone; energized by a consequent force called life; driven by an emergent awareness of environment and self; to gain the upper hand on living; to stay alive and carry on; to know something of myself and of others; to even celebrate life and fear death - a consequence of some trillions of atoms. A lattice of empty space Born, alive, and living. Consciousness, Somehow emerged From a lattice Of empty space And so, I'll go on thus alive and aware for my fourscore years and change. I'll do some things along the way which the lattice of atoms suggests I should: find a mate, make a baby, do some work, write some words, and perhaps reflect upon the sun setting into the sea. And then the energy will stop. My lattice of atoms will cease their assembled action, and fall to pieces, and go their separate way - trillions of tiny pieces, broken and scattering, with no record or memory of their past work, just trillions of little bits jostling away into a darkening night, Brownian motion always, at every level, the slowing movement of frozen energy grown colder still with the passage of life. And these thoughts I will remember as I begin now another day. And tomorrow, I will remember these thoughts again: as a reminder of what I really am, and really am...not.

Our personal nature is our most visible evidence that our will is never fully free: as how many forces of my personal being - my interest, my bias, my education, my want and especially my Biology - do conspire to steer my way? I am forever giving heed to the demands of my constitution, and can never quite say no to the man who I really am. My nature is...The footsteps I must still take,While fooling myself into thinkingThat my footsteps are my ownLikewise, do you also acquiesce to your own nature, now and yesterday, and tomorrow, too! Becoming always just what you are, or what you must next be because of just what you now are. Never something else. Never what you are not, and by extension, cannot become. And so, I will begin each day with a brief catalogue of my own character and capacity to live. And I will think also of those with whom I should today engage, and of their character and nature. And I will playact for a moment in the circumstances of today's living, and remind myself what I should expect of each place and event - for circumstance and things have their natures too - and in this way, become better prepared for what may likely be my life today; prepared, warned and tempered by the recognition, understanding and acceptance of our natures, and of the way things are likely to be, when our lives meet, and we come together to live. And in this way I live a more deliberate and honest life. Not a life of resignation - though there is some of that as well - but of recognition, and of the opportunity to react in our own way - and give way in our own way - and live well, always...each, in our own way.

I keep forgetting - fooling myself, really - that I could be in any circumstance other than the one in which I find myself now. It's fun to imagine that I am in control, and can really guide my own way in any truly independent sense. This illusion is important if we are to keep up the game of life, and participate as though we have much - or even any - say in what we are and then become, or what story is told across the course of our lives. We do have the power to decide for ourselves during every moment we are alive, which fact is the cause of such confusion, only we cannot have made any choice ever other than what we do make. Yesterday,My way led me to today,Like today must yield tomorrow.So too,My every moment,Into the next.Ours is a prison of consequence: a universal consequence of great precedent set into motion long before we were born. And we are just the biological levers of action being swung by great, inanimate forces beyond our control. We acquiesce by virtue of illusion, pretending to drive our own lives as though we can make any decisions other than what we do, regretting our seeming folly and proud of our success, wondering if we could have done better, and planning indeed to be and do better. And maybe we will be better for the lesson of our mistakes, and become satisfied over improved ends, and credit ourselves improved also - forgetting all the while that though we did indeed decide to become better, we could then never have chosen to become something worse. Our lives are only seemingly our own. Our ends less something we possess, as much as fulfill on behalf of everything that has ever been or occurred from the beginning until now. Our pride of purpose - and independence - are an illusion, as is the sense of our life course being in any real sense our own; for while we each do have the power to decide, none of us can ever make any decisions other than the ones we did actually make.

Such a long hike to get here, now. The place where I set out from is invisible beyond those distant hills, a memory of setting out from a fine place into the wild. Why did I ever leave...for this waste? Why does every young person depart Eden into the east? We all go because we must, not due to exile, but because innocence is Original Sin. We are born with a failed compass pointing deep; directing us from the admonitions of fathers and mothers towards distant places seen shimmering against the desert horizon - places far from here, anywhere but here. And so we set out, hardly prepared; to walk at midday, confidence our only ration, youthful strength a feign, withstanding shelter below the sun. And we walk then alone into the open; emerging, maybe; broken and torn some years later where the mirage is found to be a dune of sand. Our garments are tatters, our face sallow and strained, our confidence replaced with fear and understanding - the remembered awareness of our fathers and mothers - and so we sit then beside some thin, trickling oasis, whispering "home" and vowing never again to roam. Looking back,I can see betterThe uneven groundAnd dangerous footingWhich the foresight of youthDid fail to revealBut to some the journey has still just begun. We look back towards our footsteps lost in the blowing sand, and we smile faintly at the revealed brevity of each moment so far passed. Our torn garments remind us of the folly of cherished things, and the memory of our loved ones - now so far removed - caution us to never assume companionship is forever. What a journey this has been...from that place in our youth to this seeming waste. How much we have lost along the way which we did never need. How well reduced the burden of excess and superfluous self, what a lean and fortunate mortal we have become... Where to next for the well broken traveler? Into which new horizon will they tread? How much less might we become along the way, and what more might we leave behind on the road into night? What a good, unseen road. Such a worthwhile passage of life.

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 face clearly in the mind. Where are they now? What are they doing? How might their lives be getting better these days, or what challenges do they know, and how might we help? And if possible, send them a brief message, a simple "hi" along with some words to greet them when they awake, a reminder that you care, and are there for them today, no matter the distance. My first thought at dawn:My people,Their circumstanceAnd well-beingMy first words at dawn:My people,Their circumstanceAnd well-beingSituations tend to resolve themselves in proportion to our well-being. And knowing others care, and are out there for us, and want to be our people, expands our wellness like friendship fills a room with warmth. And even if we must die today, our people help to catch - if not arrest - our fall, and we go down with hands upon us, and loving faces remembering life, and the memory of companionship briefly lighting our way into the night. And so, I remember my people each day at dawn. And I think about their lives, and their circumstance, and their well-being. And I consider what I can do to help. And I then offer a word or two of greeting - no advice, no request - just a simple greeting, and reminder that I am here for them if needed, and that I care, and that I am thinking of them today, like I did yesterday, and will again tomorrow. And then I get about my work for the day. The chores and tasks I will do to make today a good day. A good day, for myself and for others; those I remember...and those who I don't even know.

In his book Walden, specifically in the chapter titled "The Ponds", Henry David Thoreau describes the seasons and moods of Walden Pond as well as the nearby White Pond and Flint's Pond. In the passage quoted below, Thoreau communicates his experience and sense of the rudderless passage of time while reclining in a small boat which he allows to drift with the breeze over the extensive surface of Walden (a "pond" which measures a half-mile by a quarter-mile across). The experience - to borrow Henry’s own vocabulary - might be described as "singular", which word perhaps falls short of capturing such a worthy life milestone. In fact, when I visited Thoreau's grave in Concord many decades back, the poet in me wondered - as I looked upon his headstone marked "Henry" - if the essence of this, and his many other such experiences, perhaps lingered with the man still, whose mortal remains were at rest, decomposed there below my feet; memories like gemstones taken to the grave within a closed fist, to outlast the stuff of the mortal who does soon become earth. So too, perhaps, does the gem of Thoreau's living experience of drifting across the pond bejewel the memory of his lost mortal remains, as a most precious lingering gift, a treasure imparted of words, from the treasure seeker to anyone who might pause to read of what he had found: I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreaming awake, until I was aroused by the boat touching the sand, and I arose to see what shore my fates had impelled me to... -Henry David ThoreauLikewise, have I drifted over my own pond - in the desert, at night, when I strike out from Siberia ghost town towards the empty hills and mountains to the north. My open eyes are soon shut by the dark, which depth is deepened by my reluctance to use a torch, and my eager willingness to become lost. I wander then into the wastes for half a night, turning here and there where I may, or must, or do, without the knowledge that I have changed way. Still air draws me forward like vacuum, while breezes and gusts push me along with whispers and words rustling of night. My feet are lost almost from the first, crossing places I may not know, feeling warm stones with my soles, stumbling often, falling forward into new lands I fool myself are familiar, until my thoughts move away from caring where I am - and I just walk on further into the dark, guided by nothing, my ambition nothing, my destination...nothing; until fatigue takes over and I lay down on the sand to sleep, a deep and dreamless sleep of further progress into night, finding places where no memory can return, lying cold and alone on the sand covered with stars and an infinity of dark. I find myself then where "my fates had impelled me to", ashore somewhere I'd never hoped to be.

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 so the course word cup might be useful, something to drink from and quench a thirst. The cup then is an instrument of the base end of work and living, not an end in itself as the thing our lives might strive for: beauty, understanding, rhyme and meaning even. Language as life is reserved then for museums, and the highest, darkest, and dustiest shelves of the library marked Poetry, Literature and Classics. Language as life is like a range of mountains seen in the distance, beautiful to behold from far away, something great to be sure, climbed by some, perhaps one day by me - but not today. But the classics are here and within easy reach of our tongue, through the careful attendance to what we say, and the reserved application of our speech. An economy of well-chosen words is as beautiful to behold as a great stanza. This is especially true when just a few words can convey deep meaning, as in these simple lines from Basho: The old pond;A frog jumps in—The sound of the water.I wish that my ordinary speech might take on the character of a humble arrangement of flowers at the kitchen table: simple, unimposing, lovely to behold, revealing of the unseen optimist who has left us something worthwhile to discover and enjoy. An economy of wordsAssembled,Arranged,Shared,Like fresh flowers On the kitchen tableWhat a worthwhile use of time— To hold my tongue until I have something true and helpful to say, and then to say it with just a few, carefully selected words, and then to withdraw again to the silent attendance of life.

It is not easy to not watch someone else struggling with life. I am not referring to not seeing them struggle, but not watching them do it. Seeing is to observe and note a fact, to then add it to our catalogue of what is true; something to remember for the purpose of influencing and perhaps altering our coming decisions and actions. Seeing someone else struggle is necessary if we are then to help them in any way, as awareness is prerequisite to informed action. Watching though, is to play the role of a spectator; to stand at the sidelines for the purpose of enjoying what we observe, to pass the time at someone else's expense, witnessing their joy or suffering - suffering usually - as a distracting relief from our own. Watching gets us, and others, nowhere; it is voyeurism and should be avoided by all means. Seeing always precedes watching, as awareness is always first-person as our consciousness must take in what is happening around us if we are to respond to the world. Maturity is in the moment of recognition that we have seen enough, and we turn our eyes to our own business, having noted the fact of what we have observed without engaging attention beyond the necessity of seeing, to watch then for the sole and entertaining sake of watching. My eyes light upon a scene; Someone else's business and pain. I note what I see, Take in the essential facts, And then turn back to my own life— Always ready to help, Never willing to gawp.And then we move on to other things. And we remember what we have seen. And we adjust the course and trajectory of our lives in small ways which may offer relief to those who we know now are hurting. And our lives becomes helpful perhaps, and a blessing even, by virtue of our informed, constrained, and decided action. We become actors then rather than audience. And life is then maybe made better for our ability to both temper our observation and to consider our action.

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 their solitude, and the saints give up their lives? Is it because consumption is recognized as a distraction? That when we do eat of the world we make it less, and our vision and senses become blurred with the feast of life and gluttony makes us filthy, sleepy, and sick. But we do it anyway, we join the feast, because we neither care about the world as it really is - wishing only to get through this life to the other side - or we prefer the feast of living as a simple end in itself, like the pleasure of warm company in a snug home where the door and shutters and drawn and lashed against the storm smothering the world outside. Let us then make more noise and become yet more merry - more wine and food! - until the sound of wind, thunder, and rain without cannot be heard. In such a way - with such distraction - may life be passed. I will keep my hand at my side, While my want, wishes me to partake. I will hold my tongue, Which desires to speak. And my mind will be kept silent, Though someone within, Does ceaselessly speak.For myself, I will not be so detained. I will not join the feast, though I know there is no better use of time than simply passing time. Strange thing that - that the thing I do not want is as good as the thing I instead choose to pursue. But this very understanding is the actual end I am after; which is affirmed not in the company of friends; but out there in the dark, and in the night; out there where there are none to comfort or hold my hand; out there where strange things prowl in the wet and the cold, and hunger demands reality, and fear sweeps back the feign curtain of pretend forevers and a one day eternal peaceful sleep. I will not remain inside while the darkness goes on so without. I will lower my hand now from the table, I will hold still my wagging tongue, and I will refuse the inner voice which does not fail; and I will step away and go out the door to discover the storm and the night and the cold and the wind and whatever else might truly be real. And so I will deny myself some morsels of life distraction; not because these things are bad; but because these things are not, to me, more true.

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 after another, from the age of understanding on, we pass our days one thing after another, and then dream ourselves busy when asleep - no rest then even from the incessant work of living. In fact, we would not live if not for this busyness, our kind would surely die and fall away. So, it is important, this work of making life productive in some way; important to us all, and part of what we are, and why we live, and thrive even. So many of us, so busy being - and remaining - alive. But is there more to life than living? I speak so much,So I mustn't hearThe deep silenceBut, there isn't more to life. At least there doesn't seem to be more. And this too is a good reason to work so hard...so that we mustn't find this fact out. But the seeming fact that we are alone and without absolute direction is a false problem - in fact, it is an opportunity. For, instead of the universe being constrained by imposed absolutes of life, and justice, and purpose, and meaning, and even some sense of immortality; we instead occupy - briefly - a wilderness of boundless frontier on every side; a place without footprints of any sort; where no others have found or roamed or discovered or loved; a universe for us to make and call home - though we must be up to the task of making it such; and not just through our industry and invention - which blinds us to ourselves - but also through our willingness to cease our distractions for a time, to turn our heads towards the night, to stare out into the darkness, or close our eyes to invite the dark inside, and hear the deep silence. This is the calling of the poet, and the artist, and the sage. A listening where there is no muse to hear speak. A watching where only physics puts on a show. A speaking where our words explore less than distract. Action to the same end. A good life of purposeful moments of finding, and sharing, and reflection, together with one another, of where we are and what we have found. A purposeful life of sincerely contrived meaning forged from a universe which does not care. A life of individuals come together to form friendship, and family, and community and kind. A good life. An honest life. Undistracted days from now until now is nevermore.

The Great Indifference exists wherever we are not distracted by ourselves. It is the substance of the universe that isn't—not empty space, but space devoid of us, or the projections we make of ourselves onto a universe that is mostly not us. But not just us, but what is alive, and living, or which once did live—as even a corpse suggests life—or the things we've made and evidently utilized to our end. Anywhere life can be detected in some way, so in that place the Indifference is masked and pushed back and away. We are very good at not seeing this nothing we do not want, as we do not need it, and it helps us not at all—our lives not bent on philosophy, but rather living for the sake of being alive. Our practical needs are never met by a speechless mind—though such vision can fill us in other ways. I will turn my head,To look over my shoulder,Into the place,With draws no attention—And I will,Attend.And when I turn around to look, none will look with me, and if they do, then I may not have looked at all, for what we see together then is little different—only slightly less—than what we were looking at before; just one another, ourselves, always us. We may as well simply close our eyes and sing to ourselves a comforting lullaby. And when I turn around to look and none turn with me, then I must be looking upon a moonscape; a desert in fact, and one of very old stones, and very worn sand which once was very old stone, and wind and heat or cold, and dark nights and a blazing today. And I should be nearly naked and always exposed—even when clothed—always exposed. And with no mind to any comfort. And no mumbling lullaby. For now, fairy-tales are done. And when I turn around to look and none turn with me, and I see before me a moonscape of silent stone and blowing sand and hot or cold and dark and light; an elemental maelstrom of grinding reality and near and potential death; and I harden then my own heart—realizing at last that none exist who might harden it for me—and I take my first halting step from the crowd onto the impossible peneplane of deep time where I might now walk alone, and I take another halting step—the voices behind me already becoming dim—and I continue to move. Now, maybe, I can begin to see... The Great Indifference is the cosmos unmasked of life, devoid of apparent meaning, departed of justice, or purpose, or care, or consciousness or even love. It is the universe as it mostly is—without us—and our vain projections of self. Can you look upon it? Can you even find a place where such vision can be seen? And what if you do see? Can you then go on? You can... And better than before. For the promise which is a lie has been broken. And life is now your own to live—to go on, and turn back towards the others, with more sincere and honest eyes, and a heart which can never be broken, and recognition of promises never made, and no false expectation to be fulfilled. Just a simple and short life to now be lived; an earnest endeavor to warm ourselves and one another with companionship, kind words, innocent laughter, and deep restful sleep between days understood as so few...so brief. A brief time to truly live, in spite of the Indifference which does never live.

I have long dreamed of a nice, personal room where I can work. A little office at home where I can set up a desk and chair and my stuff, a retreat where I can go and close the door and work on the things that matter to me. But now, I do not need that place—as nowhere is satisfactory for my work. My work can now be done no place better than here. And nothing is needed. My work requires no place and no thing, and no time even—as my work is now always being done wherever I am, and is always complete, whatever I do. I once kept a small chair Below a desert bridge, A good place to sit When I began my work— But now, I do not need that chair My work being complete Though I am ever workingAnd so, I'll go back now into the desert to the bridge where my work began. And I'll recover that folding chair kept stashed in the rafters. And I will open it, and place it on the sand where I do, and maybe sit in it again and look out fifty miles across the desert sands, and remember how this was once my place to work, my personal room, my little office in the deep shade below Route 66, the place where I came to begin my work, and where I now work always, wherever I am, whatever I am doing, and whoever I may become. I never needed that chair, nor that bridge, nor that desert; just like I never needed a little personal room where I could work, or any office at home where I could set up a desk and chair and my stuff; no retreat where I could go and close the door and work on the things that matter to me. My work is now begun and complete at once and always wherever I am. Whatever I am doing. And whoever I may become.

I've always been one to notice the hole in the fabric of humanity, where one may press through a finger to the place outside. You can peek through such a hole...though there is nothing to see due to the brilliant ambient backlight of where we now are, and the rush of smoke-like familiar air which flows out past us through the hole into the apparent void—smoke-like, for the congestion of countless generations breathing at once and through time, the stale air of expired speech and laughter, and the crying out at birth, and the guttering last utterances of death; molecules of atmosphere kept in through closed doors and lashed windows and heavy curtains drawn tight. But still, we can peek through the little hole in where and what we are, and see out into the darkness outside, and know there is more. A clear road at night— To a lighted city down below Companions along the way Streetlights, Conversation, A place to rest and eat... A break in the trees— Into the dark woods above No one, No light, No talk, No place to rest or eat...And if we wiggle our probing thumb the hole then gets wide, for no shutter is real once we elect to say no. And now we've two fingers through, and then three, and now our hand; though we still can not see, it is too dark, and very cold—or is that heat?—and the wind falls now with a mad, whistling rush of vacuum drawing our dear something into void. Has down now become out? Is it gravity pushing the wind? Will I fall through? You will not fall. As though the opening is now large enough to leave if we choose, we nevertheless always remain without some force of will first deciding to go. There are shapes now beyond in the dark, and something moving with stealth among what may be trees. And a strange sound perhaps in the distance, very far. There is no road or trail out there in the beyond, no place to go, nothing to see, and no one to show us the way. But you've come this far now... You've opened the way. Will you step through to where no promises are made, let alone kept? And no friends are found, let alone made? Nor warmth, or light of life even, let alone desire? The Path of Wildness is easy to find The course of a stream Leaves blown in the wind A beast's track through the brush And the direction of our first inclination

I'd stay where I am, like those before me, and those who are now with me. It is the smart thing to do. To settle down with work, and buy a home, and find a special someone to help fill the home with memories, and children perhaps to help pass the time. I will work, and I will rest, and we will laugh and smile and sometimes cry. And we will grow old and help parents to pass while sensing our own passage to come. And we will call this life: a good life, a well-lived life, an enjoyed life—our life. The risk of goingAnd the risk of stayingIn both directionsThe scale must tipI'd go where I will, like others before me, and possibly alone—at least for now. It's the smart thing to do. To move on and find work where I can, and live where I will, and make memories with those along the way, with children perhaps to help to pass the time. I will work, and I will rest and we will laugh and smile and sometimes cry. And we will grow old and help others to pass while sensing our own passage to come. And we will call this life: a good life, a well-lived life, an enjoyed life—our life.

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 like, and some ways to be, and to think. And we are always together in this world, even when we are apart. For the things we know and say and do are alike and these things bind us like strong arms about one another's shoulders—we understand one another, and we raise our little ones to understand, too. Comfort before truth—I will believeWhatever will not upsetMy worldAnd our small ones come up in our ways and they too are brought in and made warm and made safe and comforted by our words and our ways and our being. We lift our clasping arm and bring them under and then grasp them at the shoulders with the same warm and reassuring clasp which makes our own world whole. And we can not remember ever not being so whole. Can not recall ever being less—though we fear being less, and are afraid to be unwhole, deathly afraid. It is the worst thing possible, to become less than we are now...to no longer be one...and to lose our way, or our people, or our sense of being. What a terrible thought, to be outside. It must be death out there...or very nearly death. But then, there are those who are outside. Those strange people from somewhere else with their other ways. And their other clothes. And their other ideas so queer and unusual. Just what do they think? And why do they act so, and what strange ideas do they believe. Those others...on the outside. And why are they here? Don't look at them. Hopefully they will move on and not remain. This is our place, with our people, and our ways and clothes and ideas and beliefs. We are not for them and they are certainly not for us. Those others on the outside. Young Jimmy asked us the other day how we know that we are right and if the others are wrong. I knew that this would happen... Why did those others have to come and bring their damn questions. I never thought such—not often at least—when I was young, and I never asked anyone if I did. Jimmy spoke up because he was talking to that boy at school from the others, his friend who is not one of us. It was him who put Jimmy up to this, or at least who invited our Jimmy to question. Where to go now? What to do? The only ways from here are in or out: In, leads deeper into where we now are, to a more insular and contained place than our current certitude provides. We become more sure and more together and tighter in our ways, and our being, and our beliefs. We become these things by blocking out any void where the outside which we fear may come in—by clasping arms still tighter onto a shrinking nucleus of community who think like us. And there are less of us now than before—those who would not insist being gone. We may never see Jimmy again. Out, goes away into the seeming void of what is not what we know and want and practice and share and love. Out is the setting aside of our world to try on another—or at least some part of another world—to see how the others move and live and get by so strangely adorned with foreign ideas. Out is also the going alone with few such possessions accepted of others, and making efforts to create new ways from what can be found along the way, or made up through reading, thought and conversation. And so, we look at the others and the others see us, and we each turn away muttering "strange". But our young ones are perhaps less certain, muttering less, or with only feign conviction. And some will not stay—though most remain—and will choose out rather than in, and become others who are outside from us; their sin though being greater, because they once knew we are right.

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 through me was somewhere here—but, I wasn't. The thing which is me did not exist. The composite collection of atoms and energy which thus assembled and was given my name was never anywhere together before my conception and what was the start of a long chain of chemical reactions leading to now; a series of cellular additions—the lives and deaths of countless unicellular me—cascading through five and a half decades of life; astonishingly complex in organization, with a simple mandate to carry on long enough to continue copying myself, beyond myself, before dying and getting once more out of the way. No other purpose apparent. No better objective reason to be. I just am. Finding myself suddenly one day here and alive—from nothing which was me before. And I will live until that which I am winds down again—to a nothing which will never be me again. We each cannot rememberWhat we were not before we wereWhich is likely what we will not be againWhen we are done being what we are nowI can alllllmost remember the nothing... It is like a void of sorts in the line of time before I was born, or conceived. But even this nothing is contrived, like time in a story of fiction; something clearly made up which we willingly fool ourselves is real—for though the time before I was alive was seemingly real indeed, it is simply a believed fiction to me who was never there, and who does accept the story based on the persuasion of parents and teachers, as well as the evidence of society, libraries, museums and the cherished heirlooms of consensus that what is went on before I was ever here. I do not mean to suggest the past was never real—only that it was never real to me who was never there; like the future beyond my own death, which is another place and time I can never know, though I can believe it will be true. So, the nothing which I was and the nothing which I will again become—strange idea that..."becoming nothing"—exist in a past and a future which I can never know, which is a fiction of sorts to me at least. And it is into this fiction where some of us smuggle forever. Forever rescues us from oblivion—but only in the future, as the past denies us forever like a closed and sealed door. Yet the future welcomes any tale we wish to believe. And so we tell ourselves stories: of providence, of love, of salvation, of forever, of reunion, and of peace. And every story we say fits perfectly into an open hole which is open because it is not real. It's a perfect fit! Our contrived salvation and immortality sit just so within the emptiness of the time beyond our death. How grand it will be! And how fortunate we are! To be ones who know of the truth, and can pass this bastard thing of our life like a hard day with a head cold, knowing relief from suffering is at hand just as soon as the sun goes down, and we go to sleep, and then awaken to the sunrise of a new day. How desperate we become to sleep the night away. Those are nice stories to be sure. And a good balm and relief from the anxiety of the unknown. But stories they are. Like the words children tell themselves alone and in bed in the night, with the covers drawn over their heads, imagining somewhere and sometime beyond darkness and the strange sounds elsewhere in the room. And so, the night may pass thus tucked in against the dark, mumbling convincing prayers and "hallelujah, We Shall rise"—passing minutes and hours of restless sleep and awake, 'till the night is done and we move on into the unknown which we call our known. Or we might just say "I don't know" and "it seems like nothing awaits to me" and then get on with this one life we seem to have to enjoy, and to suffer, and to build upon, and to fail within, and to know others, and to be rejected, and to find peace, and to suffer, and to live. Pull now the covers from our face. Look square into the...

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, and made it mine. As so, I explored for some years along distant roads and over mountains and even under the sea. There are seeds to findOut there,Where life is strangeFind them,For a lifetime of bountyAnd those places where I went did not become my own, though I remember them like photos I did never take. It was instead the going to such places which mattered to me, not the places themselves, but the fact that I went. And I took back with me the fact that I went: nothing to show anyone, nothing much to share, few stories to relate—but the fact that I went. And I lived my life as the man who went. And the man who went alone. Going alone robs us of the ability to share. What we do then becomes hearsay to the rest, as there's nobody to back our claims, or laugh together in remembrance, or recall tears along the way. But that is the point—of going alone. To bring home not stories, or laughter, or tears even, but the consequence of the fact that we went—alone. There are seeds of a sort discovered is solitude which are hidden to those who do not go alone. Hidden seeds, which cling to our passing solitary figure like weedy burrs to socks—seeds coming along wherever we go, perhaps remaining unfound 'till nightfall, when we remove our shoes to note what chaffed us while we went, what scraped at us while we walked, rubbing soft flesh raw, opening new wounds perhaps, and making us weak and unwilling to carry on. But we carried on, and brought with us the chaffing things, which must remain now with us always, if not the thing which chaffs, but the dear scar and healing of having been alone to somewhere which does leave its mark. Such is the fact, that we went—alone.

As a young man, my ideas resembled the ideas of others, and my writing was an imperfect transcript of what I'd learned. My time then was better spent putting these ideas into practice; like an athlete rehearsing the instruction of their coach, making the teaching their own through the training of body and mind in order to gain the necessary strength, resilience, tone, and muscle memory to engage the world with wise instinct—the lesson of the teacher having then become the natural practice of the one who has been taught. We each possess a bottleAnd some paperAnd a pencil stub;And a strong armFor hurling into the seaAnd so, with time, the practiced lessons of youth become the mature character of the aged; taking on some qualities of self and the hue and tint of the life we have lived; the things we learned when we were young then becoming our own through the course of living. We gain in this way, not only our own way of being, but something perhaps to say... Something to share about life. Something which is not just the copied idea of another—a reflection and imperfect transcript of what we'd heard—but our own distillation of learned and lived principles which have become our own. As an older man, my ideas now resemble the life which I have lived. And my writing is an imperfect transcript of principles collected and refined and distilled and made rare through deliberate life, and deliberate thought, and the deliberate wish to improve—these things becoming my own, by way of possession and use, and the very fact of deliberate days on end, and perhaps soon to be ending. And so, I'll scratch some words on this bit of paper. And toss them within a bottle into the sea. My own words... My own deliberated impression of life, to float away upon the sea.

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 seeking an education. Or make a living without the need of a job. Or enjoy friendship, without counting friends. Or adventure even, without packing or leaving home or even remaining at home— But this isn't practical at all, and no way to live and find a mate, and raise children, and make a home or live a life. Every ambition,A near miss—Even the bullseye hits,A near miss—So, I will grow, and become educated, and find adventure and then a job, and a mate, and make a home, filled with family and I will strive. All good things. All necessary things. And I will tell myself that I have thus hit the mark—and I have, in a way, hit a mark. And I will grow old, and become weak, and enjoy grandkids at my feet; such evidence I've hit a mark, such a very good life, such an excellent use of time. And I will be right—I have hit a mark. And I will die well satisfied in my bullseye aim. What else was there to strive for? What other aim could I see? What did I miss?? There is no other aim... Which is where striving never leads. For the bullseye is a silent and invisible thing, never gained through trying, never found after being sought. Never lived but through not living—and who does not wish to live? And so grow, and become educated, and have adventure and then a job, and find a mate, and make a home, filled with family and do strive. All good things. All necessary things. But, do not expect to hit the mark—expect instead, to miss, always. And lift your chin to the sun and let a smile creep across your face, a genuine grin, through your eyes, of tempered expectation and anticipation of a good life whatever may come. A life of good striving. A life of good learning. A life of hard work. A life of family. And a life of friends, and laughter, and cherished moments, and—if very lucky—a gentle decline at the end overlooking all that was lived and done and become. Never asking...what did I miss? But never, not once even, having hit the mark. Nor ever, not once, having expected to.

"...and the very slope of the hill on which my house is placed, seemed to say, Forward!" -Henry David ThoreauI accept life as hard. I accept the need to rise early. I accept my difficult work. I accept circumstance which are hard for the fact of change. And I accept my things must break, and that I am broken, too— And though I wish none of these for their own sake, and I desire no such life for another, I accept this way to go, and these facts of being—and maybe much worse—for their own sake, and the simple fact of being, and the opportunity to climb. Picking among bouldersEvery day of my lifeFollowing alwaysThe upward ground—And I will not complain, or even speak my pain. Though I will seek relief where I can: by reading good words, and in rest where I can, and in a good and simple meal, and in making my body clean with water and soap, and in going to bed early—to sleep deep through the night, and start again early next day, lifting, and moving and pressing forward and upward and on. And I will climb knowing I've nowhere to go. Finishing someday no better than where I'd begun. But still better for the journey. Better for the upward climb.

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 get us up off the sand to shelter and shade from the sun and night and the grinding machine outside. They teach us their tongue, and give us some ways, and show us how to be and behave and what to expect. And the natives explain why we are here while expecting belief. And so we grow seemingly strong and fluent and capable; and establish our place with the people on the island in the shade—always suspect of the sunlight and the deep dark and the strange sounds far away. From nowhere, Into this forum—Of trial and opportunity.Barely time to open our eyes.Rarely a moment to see.Just time enough—To accept and pretend,Our brief days away.And soon the others go away—the old ones mostly—and cease seemingly to be. They leave when they close their eyes, and stop their breathe, and are no longer this thing called alive. But...I was taught they go on in some way, and that we will see them again in a place where there is no pain, and where no one ever leaves, and where someone very strong will care for us all. And so I carry on in these ways, accepting belief, tolerant of pain, living this way that we be. But I wonder sometimes...what this really is...this place where I am, and this thing which I am, and this seeming existence day by day? I don't tell the others my thoughts, which upsets their belief which binds them each to what they call true. Such nice people, who saved me from the beach, who brought me in, and made me their own, and taught me that which few ever doubt and which carries them all of their days. And so, I will hold my tongue, and go through their ways, and speak as they do for each and all of my days. All the while wondering to myself... What there is—or isn't. Across and over the sea?

Just every once in a while...every so often...I'll spot the Indifference between the moments of my daily life. For, while the Nothing looms from sand to the sky and the stars out there when I am alone in the deep desert, this same great expanse of empty is hard to perceive from my life at home, and at work, and while busy keeping myself distracted from what else may be truly real. But, the Nothing is there—so cleverly masked as our purposeful life—the seeing, less a perception of something beyond, as much the recognition of what there really isn't within what is. There are empty spaces Between the Distraction Where we can see through To what we do not wish to see I never say a word when I see it though. As I am sure nobody mostly cares. The Distraction being enough for this life. The lovely life we know being itself quite surely enough: the education, and finding of a mate, and the getting of a home, and the filling our home together with family; and the attention of time consuming entertainment, and the strange pleasure of gossip, and having fun, and seeking love, and finding God, and of living our days gone by and by and past through months and years of the simple striving which seems so necessary and real. Just once in a while I see through all that. And I remember then, if just for a moment, what isn't truly real— My website: https://goingalone.org My email: softypapa@goingalone.org

The price of admittance into the venue and arena of life is the effort and labor of our parents in conceiving, bearing, and bringing us into the world, as well as their work then to successfully raise us into functioning citizens of whatever society claims us its own. Our days may then be passed like a templated script: getting educated, finding friends and work, and making a home and a way and children of our own. And by such means, every day of our life may be passed, experienced, and sometimes enjoyed even, in relative peace, gaining the glossy outward fulfillment of doing it right—of living life well, and in accord with how others and we ourselves even believe life should be done. And then we die, possibly well satisfied in our striving of a sort, in our consumption, and in the collection of these things we call our own—these objects into which our identity has been projected like the nonsense soul we claim is projected into us. And then we die, surrounded by our loved ones, who are real, as well as the phantom things of the dream which was our life, which are hardly real, despite the careful arrangement of tchotchke upon shelves, and among furniture, and the thoughtful, forward thinking packing of mementos within boxes stored in the attic above our head, saved for a tomorrow which will never come, to be sold upon the lawn next month for a dollar, or picked up by surly men at the side of the road to fill the land somewhere along with the other waste and excess of such senseless passage of time. We are citizens to live We are philosophers to be alive But for some moments along the way we perhaps forgot about our things, and our home, and our job, and the people who populate our little world; and we looked out then across the far horizon of sea, maybe while our little ones played in the sand making castles of their own—and we wondered thoughtless-thoughts of whatever is beyond and past the limits of sight and current understanding—but just for a moment, just 'till little Johnny steps too close to the water's edge and we rush forward to snatch him safe from the waves. Or later, as our pastor tells us comforting stories of forever while we sit in straight lines on hard seats wearing our Sunday best, and we ask ourselves why every man of Amalek did need to die, every grown man, woman, and every child, and the beasts even—why they did all must need to die? And we wonder whence our virtue does truly arise? Upon words chiseled into stone? Or perhaps from the elsewhere and elsewhen from which our species did come: from the misty past of brutal survival, cooperation, social necessity and past success? And still later in life, as we attend our elder mother's passing, sitting at her side while holding her chill hand, bony and weak, covered with a thin veil of loose, and translucent skin revealing too much of the machinery going on below, causing us to wonder at our own machinery within, and how this mechanism does seem always to stop, and we ask ourselves how far down does the stoppage really go? And these moments of philosophy are held like curious seashells found while strolling a long walk along the beach, picked up for a moment and examined for some seconds while the world around us falls away, before being placed gently back upon the sand as we move on, our thoughts carried on away from nowhere, away from the mist, to dinner...and what show might tonight be on TV. Such are some ways in which we live. Such are some ways in which we are alive. My website: https://goingalone.org My email: softypapa@goingalone.org

I awoke today to headlines of war, and gossip, and scandal, and the rise of stocks and advertisements for soap, and a 30% chance of rain in the afternoon. I read these things over my breakfast, and thus did ready myself for a day of trivia, and minutia, and the heat and entropy of life spent over small things of no real consequence—another wasted day of distraction spent clamoring over the news. I must devote myself onlyTo the news which is never oldBut perhaps one day I might wake and step to the porch to walk past the paper into the sunlight of new dawn, where I might then strive to begin a better life: to declare war on what I believe is true, and slander the name of gossip, and assess for myself the day's elemental inclination to rain, and to put trivia and minutia to rout and seek the light and order of what considered folk before me have known, and said, and which will continue to be said by such people long after I am gone—another worthy day of good living spent in meditation upon the world. A day reviewing the news which is never old.

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 to never question, or if we do question, to resist the downhill slope of asking too often if we could be wrong. Of course we are right, we just know it. And look at all the others who know as well like me—like we—like all of us who share this blessed certainty of what is true, and eternal, and the last fact we must ever know. The work is easy if we do not doubt, and just accept, and just live, surrounded by our family and the others who do also believe. Those others beyond our pale are lost—do not listen to their confused ideas. Prepare your subtle witness while they drone on. And then witness when you can. Be an example to the world. But never doubt...and if you do doubt...then simply don't. Faith arrives Without leaving Life then passes. Our faith perhaps gaining like the inertia of a boulder in sand. The world swirling and twisting around us like blown grains, forming dunes at our side which inch by past our unflinching resolve. The sun and moon come and go with their assaults of heat and cold and the frozen, probing wedge of ice and the twisting strain of inferno light. Yet, still we resist and withstand, holding firm to the gravity footing of what we do choose to believe for the simple sake of belief—refusing doubt, turning aside from the others who are so clearly wrong, showing them the virtue of our obstinate resolve and willingness to suffer, and maybe die even, for what we so dearly hold as True. And thus life may pass. And thus, may we pass life. ---- My website: https://goingalone.org My email: softypapa@goingalone.org

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 of people I mostly never knew—friends, and those I follow, and others whom I merely liked what they had to say. My consumption then was a gross intake of whatever could fill the time, or stuff my attention until necessity took me aside for work, or a meal, or sleep. Such a wasteful use of time: days and weeks and months and years of life utterly lost to distraction— Life I can never get back. Life lost utterly to nothing. To the life aimed at the consumption and contemplation of literature. Such a good use of time. I now rise early each day to meander life in search of tidbits to consume: ideas, narrative, insight, observation, and the sincerely contemplated sharing of people I never knew—writers, and poets, and scientists, and thinkers and those who dream, and who I like, or am challenged by, or expanded by what they have to say. My consumption now is a dear intake of whatever I find good, or wholesome, or sweet to my muse and my poet and the better self I wish one day to become. Such a good use of time: days and weeks and months and years of life utterly gained through distraction— Life I can never get back. Life utterly improved through such good use of time. And I keep now a place to focus my time, a small shelf behind my head, which I dust every Sunday to keep clean, and where I have placed a small collection of the books I wish to read. It is the place which holds the focus of the time which I now truly claim is mine, the time when I am not working, or sleeping, or eating, or bathing, or being a social man of family and community and well being. My small shelf is the place where I go to take up the distraction which I do willfully choose; where I find my books, and my glasses, and my pen and a blank notebook. And I sit with these things, the books mostly, and I consume— I read, and I think, and I sometimes makes notes about the things which I learn. And though I know that I am still simply filling time, I also know that I am now filling time well—at least as well as possible in a cosmos so deep as this, as bottomless as the end of light-years, and the winking out of life, and the very near memory of never being. Such a good use of time...this reading of my books. That's what I tell myself—and I truly believe it—and that is now what I do. I wake, I work, I rest and I read.

There is an inward architecture which we create through the fact and consequence of our decisions and actions, which become the scaffolding structure of the inner man or woman who others may dimly see when they look us square in the eyes; perceiving a light or darkness within which shines or empties in proportion to the effort we have made to not just live, but to live well, and in accord with our perceived nature and better inclination. We fail utterly when we build our inner world solely guided by the prescribed blueprint precedence of others, which guidance may suffice to create grand and stately outward living, but may leave us inwardly hollow and empty in the end, when we are alone within our outer world, and we look at what we have, and do possess, and have made; and we wonder what we may have seemingly missed—and if somehow there may be more? Why are we so outwardly filled yet so inwardly empty? Our home then, a stable and impressive castle of outward success and seemingly worthwhile achievement and acclaim, resting upon an inner foundation of shifting sand. Better a cave,Warmed of fireAnd illuminated of firelight

There is a sea within us upon which circumstance presses restless winds night and day; forming crests and troughs, moving over the face of the waters in scale relative to whatever may be happening around us, and to us, and to those whom we know and love and the things we possess and care for and call our own. In mild times the waters are still or rising just slightly with a gentle breeze blowing in the direction of mild climes. Sometimes though, a wind picks up as our life seemingly tumbles along through challenges and hardship and pain, and our inner sea becomes ragged with a heaving face and a broken, foaming white churn of confusion, disorder and noise. And still other times a gale does come and great waves form and the sky and the stars are lost in the mountains of our mad inner sea—and we fear then that we too may be lost, swept below by the great moving tide to sink into the cold darkness of an abyss of ruin and failure and death. To sail tranquilly, Over placid inner seas Or an inner tempest Or the maelstrom of dying days But, our vessel is more capable than we know, more seaworthy than we think, more buoyant than any storm may overcome—but only if we remember not to steer, or to steer just very little. The key to surviving the inner sea is to clasp the tiller but lightly, or barely, or, if very strong, not at all. We float best when we guide our vessel with only the most distant and subtle commands, giving direction by indication less than command, backed by an accepting resignation rather than resistance to whatever is more than we might control or overcome. Such steerage may guide us through any sea—over placid midnight calm; or the blowing freshet of dawn, bringing the waters to an undulating pulse and promise of new day; or the afternoon gale, lashing like anger and the sore inclination of fate; to the great storm of nightfall, when churning waves rise high to overcome, and we forecast a coming night of terror, riding blindly the dark seas of our doom, lost into midnight, and our forethought imagining of every dread thing we do fear. And so we do sail. And so we do live our lives upon the inner sea. And so we must sail. And so we must live our lives upon the sea—there being no one to truly help or save us out there upon the waves—where we can, and we must, and we will survive. So then, come out from the still deeper inner cabin of warmth and light, take your seat now at the helm facing fore, and put your trembling hand to the steering beam, but only lightly, touch your hand just barely to the guide—and then be blown where the storm and seas must take you, leading the way yourself with every slight determined turn, knowing you must only go where the wind must push, pretending to steer, imagining command, sailing boldly and with peace into the terrible good night. Always merely lost. Never truly quite in control. At peace wherever your ship may go. Wherever you do hardly guide. My website: https://goingalone.org My email: softypapa@goingalone.org

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 across and over the darkened landscape around me—hunting prey with wide eyes and snuffling noses and darting tongues and feelers probing for scent and a lead to the kill. Though I sometimes must take a deep breath before I go out alone among them, I can always nevertheless set out into the dark by myself, without a light, or a map, or a compass or even a knife—and never a flame!—to wander amidst the beasts through lands I never know and to places I never see. I've always been one to go alone into the night. Always with fear, yet never quite afraid. There are ghosts which haunt the mind—Drifting thoughts and fears and musingsPhantom and vapor of confusionLet them haunt,Let them drift,Let them be...These will not dissuade my purposeTo find, carry and achieveWhat is good.I will rise always and do my work—Haunted,Fearful,Deathly afraid...Yet I work,Yet I dream,Yet I live.But yet, I am sometimes afraid of the inner dark landscape of my own mind, populated with the things I do fear, and the thoughts which sometimes seemingly haunt my inner world: floating things, drifting things, hovering things which bob out there in the dark mental mists, mostly out of sight, but sometimes coming close to let me see, or to try and rub up against me if they can. These non-things are something I do truly fear, as they know me, and exist seemingly to remind me of ideas and memories which I no longer wish to know, but which cannot be unknown again; or to cause me to worry over things which may come to pass, perhaps unfounded or ungrounded in what is real—persisting nevertheless through my wish to fuss and my sometimes feign forecasts of doom. I am tentative to walk into such a night. And I wish instead to return to the daylight of my being, or to some inner shelter to start a campfire within my mind—a place protected of localized light—to push back the darkness of my more dismal thinking, and blow away with illumination the floating things which come to mind when I am weak, and tired, or fed up. These are challenging inner places to be sure. Lands where I would rather not go. Periphery I do not wish to see. Adventures I do not want. Perhaps though, I can be strong within like I seemingly am without? Maybe I can find muster for the inner journey as I always do when setting out alone into a dark and unknown wild? A strength to do the same where my thoughts become night, and where the chill wind of confusion and fear blows deep into the place where the terrible seeming things do float and glide? I think I can. In fact, I know I can...as I have already begun doing this for several years now—when I recognize suddenly where I am in my mind, at that frontier of peace becoming night, and I choose to still the fretful inner dialogue to silence, and I cease my shuffling inner feet, and I look up with confidence to peer like a curious cat into an abominable night, and I perceive the moving mists out there just beyond, and the seeming downward slope of the land, sensing the colder climes below, and hear perhaps even the howling of the dread thing from beyond where I should never seek, and I set out now...I step once, and I step again...and I move now without fear into and THROUGH my own inner night— I walk then alone into the darkness of my empty place within, without any map, or compass, or even a knife—and never a flame!—to wander amidst the beasts through lands I never know and to places I never see. I will always be the one to go alone into the night. Always with fear, yet never quite afraid.

I once imagined I was steering my own life in a very full and meaningful way. Full control. Nearly complete, adult, and independent self-management of my direction and course of being. Such a fool I was—grasping at the controlling wheel which I'd imagined for myself, steering left at will, and then right at will, and again right, and then left, on and on, every day and night even; driving away my life in pretend that, though I could certainly make any decision I like, I could ever choose in any way other than I actually did. And then my greatest folly of all—imagining that I then utterly owned these decisions and the consequences which they did bring about. I am a passengerGazing out the windowOn a busHurtlingWithout a driverIt is a frightful thing to imagine the consequence of believing that we have no free will. As, the life ahead with such vision may appear as resigned, and given up, and without impetus to actively live. For, if we are nothing more than engines of consequence, destined to fall like dominoes lined up by the mindless will of universal chance and failing order, then why bother even to get up in the morning, let alone to seek after our fortune, well being and the pursuit of good—for what is good when life is so seemingly determined and without will? But I do not believe we have no utter free will. I hold that we can indeed make choices, and decide as we like, and choose to get up before dawn, and make coffee, and eat well before a good day of hard work, and active thinking, and considered choices and the willful pursuit of a well lived life. A life passed seeking the good which we perceive and maintain as true, and which we discuss with others to refine and improve, and which we then work together towards a better world for us all—working hard each day, to then sleep a satisfied rest while the determined stars arc gently overhead while we dream. A good life. A considered life. A willful life. A life of meaning, and purpose, and pursued best ends. I do believe this life is true, and real, and something we can freely choose. Only, I will nevermore fool myself into thinking my will is truly free. For, I know that I am indeed a puppet—if not a slave—to the mindless forces which unconsciously made me, and which force my hand now to the left, and then the right, and again to the right and at last wherever they will. My choices are my own...somehow they are mine. Or maybe I just tell myself this to hold on to some bitter crumbs of hope that I really do freely live? Perhaps I fool myself free? But, so be it. This is the place I find myself now. And maybe it is because I simply cannot possibly now think—or bear—to imagine any way other. My belief in free will is that I am free to think and choose as I will...though, in fact, I could never think or choose in any way other than I actually do. I am only free to live the life which I actually choose to live. As ridiculous as that may seemingly seem.

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 for the Walking in Japan and Abandoned Japan series. I was active at that time on social media, and among the questions I answered from viewers were periodic requests from people who planned to visit Japan, and who asked if they could join me on an adventure in the mountains. Such arrangements only rarely worked out, as the logistics of visiting both Japan and my out of the way city proved more challenge than most Japan dreamers were willing to overcome, though I did escort at least one or two groups a year with me into the Japan Southern Alps. The guided trips were fun, as it was nice to meet new people, and to talk freely with native English speakers, and to see my favorite remote Japanese villages through the curious eyes of other foreigners who shared my appreciation for such rare and special places. But, the trips were not the same for me. Such trips were nothing like my adventures alone into the rugged mountains of central Japan; and I knew what was missing—it was the fact that I was not going alone. I did not understand why at the time, but I knew that solitude in the wild was the special ingredient which was the real draw and reason that I went to such places. Going alone was the very purpose of my going at all. Going Alone is not about living alone. It is about going forth and then returning, from places where there are none.And so, one day, while still living and adventuring in Japan, I dreamed up the title of a new video series—something to replace Walking in Japan. The new series would be called "Going Alone" and would be essentially identical to Walking in Japan. The sole purpose of the name change was to create a handy label to dissuade others from asking to join me in the mountains. For, who would venture to invite themselves along on an adventure called Going Alone? It was just a passing idea, something I thought up while strolling alone through a small village, smiling a little at the silliness of the idea before letting the notion go. I never even wrote the Going Alone idea down, as the thought seemed nonsense, and anti-social even, and was in no way related to what I was then doing and sharing from the mountains of Japan. In fact, I remember feeling a little embarrassed that I had even dreamed up the idea of Going Alone. After all, how selfish was it of me to consider a video series titled for the sole purpose of warding away potential companions. However, there was indeed something to the idea of Going Alone which I sensed was important—not the title, but the fact of Going Alone—and it was this relatively rare experience of being alone in the wild which was the true thing which I was trying to protect. Not my privacy...but my being alone. And then in 2014 I came home to America. I came back initially alone, to start a new job, and to get settled before bringing my family across the sea to join me. At first, I did not adventure at all from my new home in Southern California, life itself then being more than enough newness, challenge and change. But soon, I began to go back out again into the wild looking for new places to adventure and explore. And I found my way back into the Mojave Desert where I had once wandered as a younger man. I returned then to the wild—and I returned alone. But this time I did things differently. I chose not to seek places in particular, no famous national parks like Death Valley or Joshua Tree, no monuments like the East Mojave, and not even the ghost towns or natural sights which are everywhere out there in the desert lands. No. Instead, this time I only sought to go to places where nobody else might be, or where no one else has been for a very long time, or perhaps ever— I was after then the deep, penetrating solitude, and the experience of places unseen for ages by others, to be very far off the named and charted parts of the map, into the

The opportunity to stay or to go. I say always go. Especially when we are young—always go. For the wonder of what we have left behind is like a dull lump of coal possessed against a moment's need of warmth should life turn cold and dark and possibly alone. We remain behind to not give up the little we already have, in turn for the guarantee of nothing should we leave; a bargain hardly equitable to a reasonable mind. So, I'll stay. And I will settle in. And I will remain with what I know—my lump of coal growing denser through acquisition, gaining substance by way of the gross accumulation of things: a house of our own, a safe marriage, 1.9 kids, the start of a career and the necessity to only once ever memorize our phone number. I might go out Into lifeTo see what there isAnd return in peaceOr I might staySeeking peaceWondering alwaysWhat there isOr I might depart. I say depart. Especially when we are young—always depart. For the wonder of what we find is like sand on a foreign beach. Worthless. Yet warm to our bare feet, and soft to the touch. Inviting of a long walk along a curious, foreign shore. And the finding of a soft place to sit and behold a strange sunrise, or sunset—or why not both in one day, or for a year, or longer still? Pick up a handful of the strange sand and look close. Such wonders of tiny stones. Worthless. Yet containing everything at once. Put the sand back down. And live for a while in this other place. Accumulate some other things: new ways, and fresh words, and strange and interesting times, some risk perhaps and maybe a scar. And when your days are done, and your children come to clean out your things, will they wonder more at the lump of dense coal they find upon the mantle by the TV, or by the strange sand which spills from the old pair of sneakers you long ago left by the door before they were born?

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Horror Show 15. That Which Must Be Borne 16. The Feast of Offal 17. Distraction 18. Agency and The Great Indifference 19. The Best Seat in the House 20. The Path of Wildness 21. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 22. Sin and Damnation 23. Complete Oblivion 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Season of Philosophy 26. Bullseye Aim 27. The Uphill Climb 28. Arena and Utility 29. nothing IS enough 30. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. The Feast of Offal 15. Distraction 16. Agency and The Great Indifference 17. The Best Seat in the House 18. The Path of Wildness 19. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 20. Sin and Damnation 21. Complete Oblivion 22. The Great Life Adventure 23. The Season of Philosophy 24. Bullseye Aim 25. The Uphill Climb 26. Arena and Utility 27. nothing IS enough My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. Life Will Not Go Well 15. The Horror Show 16. That Which Must Be Borne 17. The Feast of Offal 18. Distraction 19. Agency and The Great Indifference 20. The Best Seat in the House 21. The Restless Man 22. The Path of Wildness 23. The Great Life Adventure 24. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 25. Sin and Damnation 26. Complete Oblivion 27. The Season of Philosophy 28. Bullseye Aim 29. The Uphill Climb 30. Arena and Utility 31. nothing IS enough 32. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. Life Will Not Go Well 15. The Horror Show 16. That Which Must Be Borne 17. The Feast of Offal 18. Distraction 19. Agency and The Great Indifference 20. The Best Seat in the House 21. The Restless Man 22. The Path of Wildness 23. The Great Life Adventure 24. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 25. Sin and Damnation 26. Complete Oblivion 27. The Season of Philosophy 28. Bullseye Aim 29. The Uphill Climb 30. Arena and Utility 31. nothing IS enough 32. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. Life Will Not Go Well 15. The Horror Show 16. That Which Must Be Borne 17. The Feast of Offal 18. Distraction 19. Agency and The Great Indifference 20. The Best Seat in the House 21. The Restless Man 22. The Path of Wildness 23. The Great Life Adventure 24. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 25. Sin and Damnation 26. Complete Oblivion 27. The Season of Philosophy 28. Bullseye Aim 29. The Uphill Climb 30. Arena and Utility 31. nothing IS enough 32. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://discord.gg/fT3p8DXegV OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. Life Will Not Go Well 15. The Horror Show 16. That Which Must Be Borne 17. The Feast of Offal 18. Distraction 19. Agency and The Great Indifference 20. The Best Seat in the House 21. The Restless Man 22. The Path of Wildness 23. The Great Life Adventure 24. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 25. Sin and Damnation 26. Complete Oblivion 27. The Season of Philosophy 28. Bullseye Aim 29. The Uphill Climb 30. Arena and Utility 31. nothing IS enough 32. The Principle of Fun My name is Kurt Bell Learn more in my book Going Alone Be safe... But not too safe Website: https://goingalone.org Email: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

Episode 122 of the Stoic Poetry podcast deals with the weighty consequence we may incur early in our lives by way of the efforts we make to manage the risk of not doing life “right.” What price might there be to pay later?—when we're old and staid and stable and our life's “work” is complete. Maybe such consequence can be assuaged through golf, and shopping, and bridge and grand-babies or a manicured lawn, politics, gossip and TV? Perhaps… But what's to be done if these do not, in fact, suffice? Perhaps it's better then to be safe…but not too safe?—and to begin doing so while we are young, and too dumb, ignorant, broke and brave to know better. That's a way to manage life risk: The Risk of Avoiding Risk. ----The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

In episode 125 of the Stoic Poetry podcast, I explore the outer, more Stoic, edges of being ready to die—of how to be prepared for death unexpected and seemingly out of time or in the improper season—namely, how to go to our deaths like Socrates, Seneca or with the stated fortitude and resolve of Aurelius. I'm not there yet, not by a long shot. But hey, every boy and girl should have a dream.The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

Episode 137 of my podcast series Stoic Poetry deals with a category of principles titled Engagement, and explores how these five strategies for living are helpful in dealing with bad days, horrific days and the up-welling of negative emotion and action which might emerge as a result. #GoingAlone#TheGoodLifeThe Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdThe Home of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePublic Speaking13. TemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and Utilitynothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdHome of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePrinciple of FamilyPublic SpeakingTemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyScriptwritingBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and UtilityNothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.OBJECTIVES:Be Always Ready to DieMake Good Use of Time and ResourcesDevelop Good and Sound Life PrinciplesCultivate Good Emotional ReactionsPerform Good ActionsRecognize True Limits and OpportunityOne Thing Slowly PRINCIPLES:Principle of WarPrinciple of ReasonHomunculusAnchorholdHome of Good and EvilPrinciple of PurposeAtomic PrinciplePrinciple of NatureThe Pirate RidePrinciple of MaturitySocial PrinciplePrinciple of FamilyPublic SpeakingTemperanceLife Will Not Go WellThe Horror ShowThat Which Must Be BorneThe Feast of OffalDistractionAgency and The Great IndifferenceThe Best Seat in the HouseThe Restless ManThe Path of WildnessThe Great Life AdventureThe Risk of Avoiding RiskSin and DamnationComplete OblivionThe Season of PhilosophyScriptwritingBullseye AimThe Uphill ClimbArena and UtilityNothing IS enoughThe Principle of FunMy name is Kurt BellLearn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.Be safe... But not too safeWebsite: https://goingalone.orgEmail: softypapa@gmail.com #softypapa #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife