Writing
2025 Writing.
✦ January
Blood & Ink: New Years Eliminations
anti-resolutions / cultivating space / generative emergence
2025 Writing.
✦ January
Blood & Ink: The Year of Courage
heart courage / the 2025 wish
2025 Writing.
✦ January
The Sacred & The Profane
Renowned anthropologist and historian of religion Mircea Eliade attempts to describe how religious people experience the sacred.
2025 Writing.
✦ January
Blood & Ink: Day 1
judo founder's deathbed wish / new year energy / blood & ink updates
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: Incomplete Idioms?
curiosity killed the cat / great minds think alike / jack of all trades
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: Pathological Emptiness
discipline as punishment / accessing wholeness / hungry ghosts
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: How to Survive Bull Runs
bitcoin / 100k vs. 0.1M / important reminders
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: Ganbatte.
cheer up / be courageous / do your best
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: Musashi
samurai arts / shaolin plant medicine / aesthetic sensitivity
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: People as Jazz
community engagement / insightful prompt / playful conversation
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: Once You Know Better, Do Better.
maya angelou's advice / grandmother willow / playful evolution
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: The Age of the Lost Boys
peter pan syndrome / no real men / growing up
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: Soulmaking Dharma
rob burbea / the imaginal realm / dharmic dreams
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✦ December
Blood & Ink: Great Men
dune wisdom / real virtue / answering the call
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✦ December
Blood & Ink: Beliefs are Not Facts
freedom from opinion / updated self-image / belief vs. fact
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: Natural Anarchy
democracy is self-destructive / taoist political philosophy
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: Courting the Muse
thoughts on inspiration / chasing the dragon / creative advice
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✦ December
Blood & Ink: Family Time
ram dass' timeless challenge / old identities / family dynamics
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: The Power Problem
definitions of power / "McMindfulness" / the binding problem
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✦ December
Blood & Ink: Anger Addiction
the journal entry / anger & aliveness / addicted to negative emotion
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✦ December
Blood & Ink: Commit, or Quit.
total commitment / wet fish energy / all or nothing thinking.
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: On Self-Sacrifice
the altar of nature / natural law is metal AF / you are that.
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: Gentle Violence
escaping hell / cultivated gentleness / the spark in the eyes
2024 Writing.
✦ December
Blood & Ink: The Mind-Body Reality
plato's broad shoulders / scholar-warriors / mind-body harmony
2024 Writing.
✦ November
Blood & Ink: Cracking the Koans
unsolvable riddles / joining the dance / transcending opposites
2024 Writing.
✦ November
Blood & Ink: Regret vs. Failure
regret & failure / stuck in time / bold courageous action
2024 Writing.
✦ November
Blood & Ink: Bottom-Up Evolution
real changes / effective integration / bottom-up evolution
2024 Writing.
✦ November
Blood & Ink: The Zen Maxims
joshu’s bowl / zen maxims / back on the horse
2024 Writing.
✦ November
Blood & Ink: Friday
courage vs. fear / trusting life / no answers.
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✦ November
Blood & Ink: Thursday
savour vs. saving / deep intimacy / the samurai arts
2024 Writing.
✦ November
Blood & Ink: Tuesday
tim ferriss' sage wisdom / aligning with natural law
2024 Writing.
✦ November
Blood & Ink: Monday
lord byron's banger / master plant diet / apotheosis retreat