by Monk Anchorwind | 3 Feb, 2025 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
The Link to the 2025 : A Year of Compassion Project is here Dear Diary, The last thing people many want to do is look inward and confront themselves, and as such, we live in an age of unnecessary cruelty. How did we get here? A lack of accountability for the wealthy...
by Monk Anchorwind | 24 Jan, 2025 | The Mindfulness Journey |
The Link to the 2025 : A Year of Compassion Project is here Compassion is a skill; being compassionate is succeeding in using said skill. Skills take practice to develop proficiency, and we shouldn’t expect perfection from ourselves (or anyone, really). In the...
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 | 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...
by Monk Anchorwind | 7 Nov, 2024 | Considered Thoughts |
America likes to pretend itself to be a ‘shining city upon a hill.’ What the predominately rich white men and their partners don’t want you to notice are all the slums under and surrounding the hill from where the wealth is extracted. The...
by Monk Anchorwind | 22 Jun, 2024 | Considered Thoughts |
Dear Diary, Let’s Talk about Male Loneliness I decided half a year ago 2024 would be ‘The Year of Courage.’ I don’t remember what that meant when I initially made the decision, but it has manifested into me trying to ‘find my...
