by Monk Anchorwind | 24 May, 2025 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, I recently experienced joy again, actual legitimate joy. Joy is such a unique, incomparable feeling; I was amazed at how much I had forgotten what it felt like. I’ve been content; I’ve had fleeting moments of happiness, but both of those are (or can be)...
by Monk Anchorwind | 9 May, 2025 | Dear Diary |
The new Pope is American, and immediately some ‘MAGA’ commentators saw it as an affront to Trump. Last I checked, which was just now, the Catholic Church’s priorities were less American Geopolitics and more Christianity-oriented. As such, they elected a Christian...
by Monk Anchorwind | 5 Apr, 2025 | Dear Diary |
In the two trading days since Donald John Trump’s announcement of the stupidest and most unnecessary set of near-global (404 – Russia Not Found) tariffs since The Great Depression, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 9.2%, the S&P 500 fell 10.5%, and the...
by Monk Anchorwind | 12 Mar, 2025 | Considered Thoughts |
Sun Tzu, in his famous ‘The Art of War’ wrote, “Therefore, a victorious army first obtains conditions for victory, then seeks to do battle. A defeated army first seeks to do battle, then obtains conditions for victory.” In 1971, Lewis Powell...
by Monk Anchorwind | 3 Mar, 2025 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, I had a Moment of Clarity About Anger For a brief moment, after I finished my reBLUEvinate piece, I felt clarity. I was angry and comfortable with the feeling, for I knew I was still on the right path at that particular moment. In that comfort and with...
by Monk Anchorwind | 28 Feb, 2025 | Considered Thoughts |
The time to reBLUEvinate is now. I lived in Europe during the Bush years. Time and again, I had to differentiate myself from their perceptions of what an American was. I wasn’t dumb, brash, arrogant, and I didn’t expect the world to revolve around me. ...
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...
