In the midst of starting 26 different drafts and chastising myself for not posting each week and having that cycle of self-hatred and subsequent inaction snowball into 4 months, I was thinking about the reason for my insanity, and it hit me. I haven't been able to post because I've been making the website too …
The Hungry Ghost
Source "Hungry ghosts are the demon-like creatures described in Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu, Sikh, and Jain texts as the remnants of the dead who are afflicted with insatiable desire, hunger or thirst as a result of bad deeds or evil intent carried out in their life times... Defined by a fusion of rage and desire, tormented …
Fighting the Good Fight
Hercules Fighting Achelous by Nicolas Bertin "What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar – and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed …
The Loaded Gun: Decision Making
Making Decisions. We all have to do it, to different degrees. Sometimes for others, always for ourselves. Yet the hows and whys of decision making are often overlooked in our lives. Some of us avoid making decisions like the plague. We prefer others to make decisions for us. The conversation we have every time we …
The Attack
It has been over three weeks since my introductory post. Since then, and before writing that post even, I have written paragraphs and paragraphs of content. Perhaps, too many paragraphs. Yet, I have uploaded nothing. I wrote an entire blog post on change, which kept getting longer and longer, until I decided it wasn’t fit …
Welcome to Kyra Thoughts
This website and its content is a cultivation of ideas and thoughts that I wish I could have read the second my brain developed its capacity for higher thinking, and certainly before I was required to make any big life decisions for myself or define my self, my ideal, and my moral structure. It’s sort …