by Monk Anchorwind | 18 Dec, 2024 | Considered Thoughts |
2024 : A Year of Courage In Review My theme for 2024 was ‘A Year of Courage.’ It followed themes of Forgiveness, Intention, Healing, Introspection, and The Ten Years of Tragedy. As I watch the cold November December rain, I take a moment to reflect on how this...
by Monk Anchorwind | 7 Nov, 2024 | Considered Thoughts |
America likes to pretend itself to be a ‘shining city upon a hill.’ What the predominately rich white men and their partners don’t want you to notice are all the slums under and surrounding the hill from where the wealth is extracted. The...
by Monk Anchorwind | 22 Jun, 2024 | Considered Thoughts |
Dear Diary, Let’s Talk about Male Loneliness I decided half a year ago 2024 would be ‘The Year of Courage.’ I don’t remember what that meant when I initially made the decision, but it has manifested into me trying to ‘find my...
by Monk Anchorwind | 31 Mar, 2023 | Considered Thoughts |
The Original 30 (Written in 2013, Updated in 2023 as my writing skills have improved) 31-40 Written in 2023. Purpose: 30 Tidbits of wisdom written throughout 30 days before I turn 30. Not written in any particular order, just meant to share thoughts and provoke...
by Monk Anchorwind | 5 Jan, 2023 | Considered Thoughts |
2022 was the ‘year of intention.’ I didn’t have a single intention guiding the entire year; instead, I tried to live with intention instead of drifting mindlessly throughout the day. It can be easy for us to become tunnel-visioned on what pops up...
by Monk Anchorwind | 4 May, 2022 | Considered Thoughts |
I’ve been meditating intently on purpose. I think purpose and home share the same sense of safety and comfort. They are both where you return to when you become lost and need to recenter yourself. I’ve written a few times about being homeless, and the news...
by Monk Anchorwind | 19 Dec, 2021 | Considered Thoughts |
I have come to understand I have hated myself for almost forty years. I have been exploring anger, guilt, shame, and hope, but the more I tried to know what they are and what to do with them, I felt I was missing something important. Hope is the mechanism for...
by Monk Anchorwind | 25 Nov, 2021 | Considered Thoughts |
At the end of his Ted Talk, Brady Wilson said, “People rarely leave your presence neutral. They either leave engaged or depleted.” One of my favorite songs is by Underworld, in which the lyrics are, “What don’t lift you drags you down, keep...
by Monk Anchorwind | 10 Nov, 2021 | Considered Thoughts |
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 | 31 Oct, 2021 | Considered Thoughts |
Pursuing Peace Under Pressure The Buddha teaches us “attachment is the cause of suffering.” The Tao informs us “to see the limits of things, desire them.” My therapist adds “relate but don’t attach.” I have struggled with...
