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A malign pincer grips our weary souls as I peck out these words in the bleak dawn of early 2025. You feel it too. That dull ache in your ribcage ain't a cardiac event. It's the life force being throttled out of you by a twin-pronged

Why We Need to Meditate
So, you want to meditate? Here’s the raw deal, stripped down to the studs:
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Scratching with Modernity
Why are some people such jerks?
Or, to borrow from our British cousins, so disagreeable?
I mean "disagreeable" in the most expansive way possible. I'm talking boors and bastards, cretins and creeps, every person labeled with a derogatory term derived from the nethers of the human