by Monk Anchorwind | 20 Jan, 2025 | The Mindfulness Journey |
The Project Page for 2025 : A Year of Compassion can be found here. 2025 A Year of Compassion : Part 3 – The Pressures We Put on Ourselves. Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We get to celebrate it by inaugurating a convicted felon, rapist, and fraud who is...
by Monk Anchorwind | 12 Jan, 2025 | The Mindfulness Journey |
A bit different I think I’m going to try something a bit different, this time. If it works I may keep up with this format. I am going to include Part 1 and another piece for context in addition to the main bit. 2025 : A Year of Compassion (Intro) 2025 : A Year...
by Monk Anchorwind | 6 Jan, 2025 | The Mindfulness Journey |
2025 : A Year of Compassion I initially wanted 2025 to be A Year of Focus. 2024 got away from me; it felt like the bad news piled on, and I lost myself just trying to do my best day to day. My instinct is to try to work harder, but as I’ve come to learn, that’s...
by Monk Anchorwind | 18 Dec, 2024 | Considered Thoughts |
2024 : A Year of Courage In Review My theme for 2024 was ‘A Year of Courage.’ It followed themes of Forgiveness, Intention, Healing, Introspection, and The Ten Years of Tragedy. As I watch the cold November December rain, I take a moment to reflect on how this...
by Monk Anchorwind | 5 Dec, 2024 | Miscellaneous |
This is my variant of The Onion’s headline that reads ” ‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” <- posted every time a school shooting happens.
by Monk Anchorwind | 2 Dec, 2024 | Miscellaneous |
by Monk Anchorwind | 18 Nov, 2024 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, The “Middle Class” is a lie. One of the most effective strategies ever devised in terms of how to solve a problem involving people is ‘divide and conquer.’ The USA has effectively been a thinly veiled oligarchy for some time, and the dyed-in-the-wool...
by Monk Anchorwind | 14 Nov, 2024 | The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, I’ve said for a few years now ‘Hope is the Mechanism for Meaning.’ In the math equation, ‘a + b = c’ Hope is ‘b.’ You decide what you want to try to accomplish (‘c’), and what you are left with is you and the effort you put in (‘a’). However, what...