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Have you ever been hooked by a fishing lure deep in your skin. I mean really hooked, with the sharp barbed points of a casting lure? There are other things that hook us too.

Halleluijah in a Northern Wisconsin Bar is the minor chord and the major lift; not from booze but the renditions we live with in song and story.

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Speaking as Hospitality

A central premise in my forthcoming book is that speaking is a covenant of hospitality. I maintain the connection between audience and speaker is the key to effective speech. That covenant is held together by readiness. An audience is ready and they show up to hear, but the effective speaker will be more ready and they will invite connection and will prepare the place and the atmosphere. I have…

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Speaking as Hospitality: A First Look from Sutra House

It may be odd to hear that effective public speaking is about learning to pay better attention. Attention to the room. Attention to another person’s fears. Attention to the conversations taking shape before your first word. This attention led me to write Speaking as Hospitality and Sutra House has released the pre-publication page, and I’m excited to finally share it. Speaking as…

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Blue and Broken in the Keweenaw

BLUE AND BROKEN IN THE KEWEENAW Thorburn and I got scolded by a grade school principal in Michigan’s Copper Country. But come on, we were, and are writers. Back then, we were hungry and broke too. Russell Thorburn, Upper Michigan’s first Poet Laureate, had been hired to travel through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula schools to lead poetry and writing workshops. Thorburn believed children could…

A Dust Bath for Five Chickens: satisfaction in small things

I’m in Wisconsin, helping my daughter with a small chicken project. Her five chickens needed a bin in the coop to take their dust baths. So we gathered a couple of old vegetable beds and transferred the soil into sheltered boxes where they could scratch, roll, and clean their feathers. Building a dust bath for five chickens on a summer day is not important work by most standards. The chickens…

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YOGATECTURE: The Elegant Arc of Change

Originally published in Asana International Yoga Journal on October 2, 2017 Yoga empowers and brings seeds to fruition. From the mat up, yoga-tec-ture is the process of yoga. And the process of yoga is the work of personal transformation formed by the elegance and heritage of an ancient blueprint that molds bodies, minds, and spirits. This blueprint admonishes the yogi to wrestle with self and…

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Team Flame Takes the Field for The Twin Bill

Today is publication day, and I am delighted to share that my essay, “Team Flame,” appears in Issue 24 of The Twin Bill. The Twin Bill is a literary quarterly devoted to baseball writing and art. Each year, the journal releases a special issue on the day of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game, bringing together writers and artists who understand that baseball is never only about the final…

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Savasana and the Open Hand: A Practice of Release

When the instructions stop and the body grows still, the restless mind often comes rushing back. In this essay for Asana International Yoga Journal, Gregory Ormson considers Savasana as a practice of release, non-grasping, and the difficult work of opening the hand. My essay, “Savasana and the Open Hand: A Practice of Release,” was published July 11, 2026, in Asana International Yoga…

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The Immigrant Asana

Originally published in Asana Yoga Magazine, May 2016. From the Archives I wrote this essay for Asana Yoga Magazine ten years ago. Reading it again, I’m reminded that some ideas continue to ask for our attention. The language surrounding immigration has changed, the politics have shifted, but gratitude remains in the same place: one conscious breath. I’m sympathetic to the plight of…

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Baseball and Cuisine Share One Necessary Ingredient: NOSTALGIA

From The Twin Bill, December 2020 Baseball and Nostalgia In 2020, I came across a brand-new literary baseball publication started in New York, The Twin Bill. It was started by Scott Bolohan. Immediately, I was enthralled by an online magazine focused on writing and baseball, two of my favorite subjects. So I submitted a piece, “The Diamond Speaks in Runes,” and it was published in their second…

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Nothing Is Forced into Action Except the Old Boat Motor

At the cabin, stories rise the way ghosts do. Nobody can produce them on demand. They are, like the Dylan lyric about sons and daughters, “beyond our command.” They flash across consciousness, drift back into the trees, return when they are ready. This is why I come again to Big Casey Lake, to the Old-Style place where I feed my soul and feel enriched yet find myself hungry for more. The cabin…

#Lyric Memoir #Big Casey Lake #Cabin Memoir #creative nonfiction #Lyric Narrative #Manual Work #Northwoods Writing #Old Boat Motor #Place as Teacher #Stories Emerge Like Bears

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He Sang His Ass Off

Russell Thorburn writes of Send Dylan to the Country Ormson rips snow-driven chords hard on his Taylor acoustic, in Gummersound’s Marquette garage. The stove is heating up like his vocals, as a Dylan Thomas’ lower baritone jumps into the fray to describe a dog with a cigarette … humor for the pub. A step out the side door, winter is all smelly socks. Mrs. Henderson is there, and she’s willing…

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Lightning Bolts and Scars

IN Lightning Bolts and Stars, Gregory Ormson and Russell Thorburn pair up to create this spoken word piece with music. Ormson reading, Thorburn on Keyboards, and Darrell Syria guest on electric guitar. Listen in here to this spoken word piece, a precursor to my lyric memoir, Stories Emerge Like Bears. Lightning Bolts and Scars, originally published online in New Plains Review

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Yoga's Curriculum for Self Integration

When I started yoga, I thought it was about people bending into forms that were, at first, perplexing. But yoga moves in its own way, and I had much to learn. Yoga’s curriculum for self integration At first, I practiced to feel better. Then I practiced to learn alignment. Then I wanted to accomplish more asanas. As a dedicated student, I paid attention to words from my teachers as their…

Team Flame nine fires in the game

Some batters arrive at the plate carrying heft. Some bring grace. Some survive enough innings to become myth. They’re all here and part of Team Flame. Nine batters in burnings and meditations, spirits and fires, spectacles and labors, longings and memories. They are dangerous poetic beautiful. Bodies on fire, smoking bats. Arms on fire, blazing flames. At the plate: combustions, strikeouts,…

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