The Wind Inside Your Invisible Backpack

2026-10-20 · William L Hartwick

A blog by William L. Hartwick

What's the most powerful force on Earth that no one can see, hear, smell, taste, or touch? It can be very destructive, and it can be very gentle. It's the wind.

And what's the most powerful force on Earth that no one can see, hear, smell, taste, or touch about somebody else? It's the emotions inside your invisible backpack.

We often try to predict the weather. I say fools and newcomers do that — especially living in Florida only three years. You'd be amazed at how difficult it must be, and how inaccurate it is, to predict the weather. Especially the wind of a hurricane. Yet we try to predict the emotional stability of a human.

So how hard is it to predict the future of a child? How hard is it to predict what we're carrying around? And why are we trying to predict human behavior instead of understanding it?

We all say, “I'm fine. I'm doing great. How are you today? I'm OK.”

But the wind, when it's released, can be extremely destructive. So can your emotional wind inside your heavy backpack.

During the last eight years, when I started to release my invisible backpack and create what we see in front of us as this organization, I was a destructive hurricane. When I opened up my invisible backpack, I was not kind. I was vicious. I was mean. I was unpredictable. I bottled it up for 53 years — and wow, did I let it go.

Learning from that horrific hurricane of opening my invisible backpack, I've created The Invisible Backpack Organization to support others so they don't have to go there.

I was on a cruise ship in 2005 during Katrina, and I experienced some of the most powerful, destructive wind. I've created this organization so your Katrina can be free.

The reason I developed The Invisible Backpack Organization is to help you release the invisible wind — without being destructive to yourself or to others.