Tag: Spooner
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YOGA AND LEATHER – new moves for riders and yogis
Shipra Saraogi (pictured) at the Usery Mountain Regional Park, Mesa, Arizona. #MotorcyclingyogiG teaches yoga for riders (YOGA AND LEATHER) at Superstition Harley-Davidson in Apache Junction, Arizona. His classes demonstrate to riders how they might use their bike for a prop to stretch when taking a break from the road with the goal of keeping riders…
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Below the Frost Line
When you engage with yoga, it will slowly render the surface-self transparent to its underlying divinity. It will build a foundation well below the frost line. Yoga will not be televised, its moves are not dictated by chart, table, or graph; yoga will not whiten your teeth, but you will be astonished in moments of…
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MIDWEST INTIMATIONS
Port Yonder Press / Eastern Iowa University will be publishing its third volume of lyric essays this summer. Work by two writers is now online, including my essay, “Midwest Intimations.” The other essay online, link included is, “You Will Have a Son,” by Cindy Lamothe, an expat living in Antigua. Thank you Port Yonder Press.…
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The WRITING Cabin, August 14, 2016
Decompression in a short video. https://goo.gl/photos/pdBb7KKt2JtGT268A It’s been called The Old Style Place for 42-years, four months. I like to call it Oz. But at this Oz, there is no wizard behind the curtain. Not one is capable of changing the weather or bringing dreams to fruition. Here, it is still. It is quiet. One is…
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The Land of OZ in Wisconsin’s North Woods
Paragraph from an essay in progress, “Oz: Emerging Truth.” OZ sits me down where we’re accompanied by the parting grip of Old Man Winter. His dying is not pretty, he’s peeping around the corner in prurient self-interest, wanting to mess with Easter. But he can’t, so Old Man Winter becomes a disgruntled wizard, holding…
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Ghosts published in Turks Head Review 8/4/15
Ghosts
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Midwest – from the Old Style Place. Cabin Writing
Notes from The Old Style Place Everything at The Old Style Place remains upright, anchored in stubbornness. Its steadfast preachment to tenacity has denied gravity its victory. This stubbornness was earned by hammer and…
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Midwest Old Style Place (Am Writing)
I tune to WOJB for an in-breaking from another world. The indigenouspeople speak in even tones, softly on the microphone, nearly a chant. Theiridiom camouflages a humor I sometimes get. Dead air, then a night-time jock speaks with refreshing lack of pretense, clear and simple. She says, “Good evening everyone. It’s Tuesday and I hope…