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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 12 Jun, 2024 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, The Late George Carlin taught us, ‘The quality of our thoughts can only be as good as the quality of our language.’ This one idea is something I’ve been thinking about since some time in my childhood when I was first introduced to it. Thoughts are how we...
by Monk Anchorwind | 27 Apr, 2023 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, Reciprocity? Yes – but of what? Dear Diary, I’ve lacked reciprocity in my relationships for ages. I’ve tried to correct this through gentle but direct confrontation, but ultimately I’ve had to let people go because I’d...
by Monk Anchorwind | 3 Apr, 2023 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, The Death and Resurrection of Youth Dear Diary, what is youth? An adage states, ‘youth is wasted on the young.’ Is youth referring to energy gradually fading away as one ages? Where does such energy originate? Youth is hope; youth is the...
by Monk Anchorwind | 3 Feb, 2023 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
In my writings about joy, I speak of the environment often. I wrote such things as ‘our environment impacts us constantly, regardless of whether we are aware of it,’ and ‘the environment also means things we surround ourselves with mentally,...
