by Monk Anchorwind | 9 Feb, 2026 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, For quite some time now, I’ve operated in a certain way, and when it didn’t work, I put it down to try again later. With music, I had a feeling I wanted to convey, and as I moved through the creative process, I meandered through the sonic...
by Monk Anchorwind | 5 Feb, 2026 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, I want to say something akin to ‘I’ve been gradually digging into deeper layers of understanding,’ but in reality, we get buried underneath a great deal of extraneous ‘stuff’ from a host of external sources. However, the more we understand, the lighter we...
by Monk Anchorwind | 25 Jan, 2026 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, What color are rainclouds? The conditioned response in most people will yield a swift and confident ‘gray!’ Rainclouds are always drawn as dark, and when we look at them, it tends to be from one side only. However, have you ever looked out...
by Monk Anchorwind | 23 Jan, 2026 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, It may feel counterintuitive, but the action of letting things go requires energy, even though we often feel better as a result. The final acts of closure are draining in their respective ways, and sometimes we end up living with a constant level of pain...
by Monk Anchorwind | 19 Jan, 2026 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, In my piece yesterday, introducing the idea we should learn what to embrace in order to discern what to release, I feel I glossed over an essential step in the middle: learning to stay connected. This intermediary step will be unique to the individual, but...
by Monk Anchorwind | 18 Jan, 2026 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, In order to understand what we need to release, we should understand what we should embrace. I sometimes fear letting something go, for no other reason than I release quite a bit unintentionally through memory loss. My frequent and predictable forgetting...
by Monk Anchorwind | 1 Jan, 2026 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, Sometimes what makes something ‘click’ is humble rather than grand. In my previous piece, I discussed how scarcity is often manufactured and is not itself a symbol of desirability. I was recently presented with a fresh loaf of olive bread straight from...
by Monk Anchorwind | 30 Dec, 2025 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, Here in the West, if we had to describe the culture with one word (which would always be a gross oversimplification, I readily admit), it would be ‘more. ’ The idea of ‘enough’ borders on blasphemy in boardrooms coast to coast, and by extension in...
by Monk Anchorwind | 21 Nov, 2025 | Dear Diary, The Mindfulness Journey |
Dear Diary, If you currently live in the United States of America, you are witnessing the destruction of more than most of us can truly comprehend before your very eyes. If we’re being honest, these last ten years have been so destructive it is a reasonable...
by Monk Anchorwind | 28 Sep, 2025 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, Of Grief and Attachment What do we do with grief once we’ve processed the boots-on-the-ground reality? When we’ve come to terms with what we’ve lost, what isn’t coming back, what do we do with that information? Grief is complicated from the standpoint of...
