by Monk Anchorwind | 18 Dec, 2024 | Introspective |
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 | 5 Jan, 2023 | Introspective |
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 | 20 Oct, 2022 | Introspective |
For years I’ve struggled with the idea I am not valuable because I produce less than a healthy, employed person. The notion we are defined by our productivity, I’m sure, is rooted in some western capitalistic thought, and it was firmly embedded in me. I...
by Monk Anchorwind | 4 May, 2022 | Introspective, Observational |
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 | Introspective |
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 | Introspective |
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 | 31 Oct, 2021 | Introspective |
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...
by Monk Anchorwind | 18 Sep, 2021 | Introspective |
Of Anger and Helplessness For far too many years, I felt alienated because of my lack of anger. As a young man, I saw first-hand the results of outward, destructive anger and vowed not to resemble that crowd. Anger would give me anxiety, and I’d convert one...
by Monk Anchorwind | 20 Feb, 2021 | Introspective |
Of Abandonment and Reductionism I’ve been meditating extensively upon ‘Abandonment’ lately, both in the idea’s physical and emotional senses. In my meditations, I’ve been focused more on male relationships, as I’ve seen and...
by Monk Anchorwind | 3 Sep, 2020 | Introspective |
Watching Villages Burn Twenty years ago, I was the Editor for the newspaper, discussing Bush v. Gore and trying to ensure maximum voter participation. I could not have guessed how against the will of the popular vote, court-ordered cessations of recounts in a state...
