Category: Midwest
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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 hallways of Menomonie High School were another kind of boundary.
From Greg Ormson, now living in Apache Junction, Arizona. Excerpt from my nonfiction piece, “Drums: Voice of Wooing” When Colt 4 broke up, I joined a second band. We were disorganized and talentless, but our singer had access to his grandmother’s remote cabin in the woods. After high school basketball games, our classmates trudged…
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O-Rings in The Good Men Project
https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/where-are-the-adults-bbab/
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The Bridge Within
This article (yogainspirational #46) from September is not yet online, but in the print version of Asana Journal, available at http://www.asanajournal.com. To read it, click on each photo. Articles in the magazine are excellent and informative for beginner or advanced practitioner. I took photos of these two bridges on my travels through Upper Michigan this summer.…
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A Walk to Lake Superior
This summer of nostalgia and reunions has left me dizzy with memories. The two roads of which Frost wrote have never been relevant to me. I’ve always seen only one road, the one in which I was all in. I don’t care if the glass is half full or half empty; speculating…
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In the Shadow of the Angel: 23-years of men’s group
Twenty-three years after starting a Men’s Group in Marquette, Michigan with John MacDevitt and Jeff Gibbs, I found them still meeting. Here’s the story, published Aug. 29, 2016 in The Good Men Project. Follow link below to story. https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/in-the-shadow-of-the-angel-a-return-to-the-mens-group-dg/ Thank you TGMP
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Marquette, Michigan, August 2016
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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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COMMEMORATION
Allen Keith Ormson Uncle Al (Allen) graduated from Barron High School in 1957, and then went to college at The University of Wisconsin, River Falls, where he earned a bachelor’s degree graduating in 1963. Like many boys growing up with brothers, my father Dean, and his brothers Al and Duane engaged in sibling rivalry. At…
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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…