GREGORY ORMSON

Category: Midwest

  • NATIONAL POETRY MONTH: a poetry/song series the last 8 days of April. Number 2, “Mescalero Territory.”

    Russell Thorburn and Gregory Ormson have worked together for over a decade writing original poems, prose, and music. Much of it happens in spite of distance and isolation. The seven songs/poems, posted for NATIONAL POETRY MONTH during April, are Ormson/Thorburn’s word/song series for the pandemic. Isolated in an Upper Midwest studio, musicians record their work…

  • ANCHORS: For Kristen and Greg on their 25th anniversary

    One good thing about Facebook is that every now and then someone reaches from the past and makes contact with us in the present. This is the case from someone that contacted me yesterday and I’m glad he did. Today (Aug. 13) is Kristen and Greg’s 25th wedding anniversary. Back then, I was the officiant…

  • WRITING, LEADING, INSPIRING, March 7 podcast episode w/writer and yoga teacher motorcyclingyogiG

    In this episode of Here You Are Wausau (click link) Dino Corvino and I discuss writing and yoga, breath, ego, truth, ayurveda, teaching, and journaling along with people and places of Wausau. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leading-inspiring/id1078823496?i=1000431335481&mt=2 I’ll forever see you (Dino) as the weird kid eating chickpeas from a can in the UW Milwaukee student union. Click link and…

  • From: Yoga Script for Health and Joy. Link below Much writing in the field of spirituality has to do with this notion of intentionality, focus and bringing a new vision to life. Wayne Dyer wrote often of ‘changing our script,’ and Sam Keen passionately noted that all of us are responsible for replacing iatrogenic (sickening)…

  • EASTER 2017, Apache Junction, AZ.

    I had a house in Marquette, Michigan. Beautiful trees populated the five acre plot, and in time I named some of them. I found shade and solace near Ulysses, Chief, and Christmas. But my favorite was Easter. Easter was a large maple, exploding with red leaves each fall. In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, that meant late…

  • MIDWEST INTIMATIONS

    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.…

  • 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…

  • O-Rings in The Good Men Project

    https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/where-are-the-adults-bbab/

  • 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…

  • 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