Hello and welcome to America Out Loud News Radio.

This is your band, Monk.

And today we're going to do something a little bit different.

I usually have a guest on the show, but today you got me.

And I have you.

And we're going to enjoy this experience together.

And I appreciate you being here and lending me your ear.

So I'm going to give you a loaded question to start off this monologue, I guess you can

call it. Who are you and why are you here?

Matter of fact, we will just forget about the who are you

and we'll stick with the why are you here.

My my thought about it is, I'm not sure why I'm here, but I think it has to do something with love, unconditional love, being able to experience unconditional love for self and others. That's the best I got right now.

Why am I here? There was this interesting experience I had back in my drinking days.

I went out with a group of friends and drinking, of course, was a huge part of my life for about 20 plus years.

But I came back to my friend's house after we went out that night and she had a closet that was a mirror. So it was a sliding closet door, but the door was a mirror.

And when I got up in the morning, I looked at myself and the weirdest thing happened is as I was looking at my image, it didn't look familiar.

I know that sounds strange, but I was looking at my image and somehow yes it was a physical body

but there was something it was a disconnect like that wasn't me and I started a

question like who is that?

Who am I seeing right now?

It was the strangest thing.

I even was saying this is my name.

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