by Monk Anchorwind | 10 Feb, 2022 | Inspirational |
Forgiveness relieves us of the burden of change by removing guilt. The removal of guilt does not mean the event disappears from our memory; instead, we use it as a lighthouse to navigate better in the future. In attempting to navigate the waters of life, we learn...
by Monk Anchorwind | 20 Jan, 2022 | Inspirational |
How often do you look at something with a childlike sense of wonder? When was the last time you drew lines in the stars or saw animals in the clouds? When was the last time you sat with a piece of art (music, books, etc.) and allowed yourself to be amazed by it? ...
by Monk Anchorwind | 10 Nov, 2021 | Inspirational |
Fear drives us to act in ways we wouldn’t normally behave. Fear pulls us towards our base actions of a fight-flight-freeze response. We operate in response to potential, or known, consequences in favor of our survival. Fear does not enable growth; it merely...
by Monk Anchorwind | 8 Oct, 2020 | Inspirational |
As we approach a potentially historically disastrous turning point for the USA, I’ve wondered, ‘Where are the adults in the room?’ The Fifty-Eight people: POTUS, VPOTUS, Attorney General (AG), Fifty Senators, and Five Supreme Court Justices, can...
by Monk Anchorwind | 18 Jan, 2020 | Inspirational |
New Draft There was a part of me that told myself I was going to take a break from writing. Every time I felt I had something to say, I would feel it was just the same as what came before. We do live in dark, pivotal times. We are inundated with numerous forms of...
by Monk Anchorwind | 25 Mar, 2019 | Inspirational |
What is anger? In my younger days I would have told you anger is a force of destruction used to justify the worst in all of us; I would have told you anger is a means by which otherwise good people are capable of terrible things; I would have told you anger is to be...
by Monk Anchorwind | 12 Sep, 2018 | Inspirational |
I am often wrong. I am ok with this for being wrong is a part of the growth process. I would think going from start to finish with nothing in between is difficult. This awareness of my erroneous, ultimately human, nature gives me a quiet strength. I possess the...
by Monk Anchorwind | 10 Sep, 2018 | Inspirational, Introspective |
September 11th 2001, the day the world changed forever. Like the Kennedy assassination, it is the kind of day so pivotal that virtually everyone remembers where they were that day. I was 18 in 2001, had just graduated high school, in NY, and was working 3 jobs at...
by Monk Anchorwind | 5 Aug, 2018 | Inspirational |
There exists now a palpable division in our country. It is not an extreme theory to posit the last two years or so have done more for polarization, on both micro and macro levels, than any other point in recent history. Battlelines are not only being drawn, but in...
by Monk Anchorwind | 16 Jan, 2018 | Inspirational |
America is greater than the sum of its parts. At times, this can be difficult to see, as everywhere we turn we are consistently reminded of our imperfections. Sometimes it is easy to get lost in those striving to restrain the progress of our already-great...
