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In The Golden Moment: A riders journal on sunset, highway, and wind by Gregory Ormson
September’s issue of Thunder Press includes a 2021 review of Sturgis Bike Week and my story below. Thanks Kevin Duke (ed)., and Oliver Touron for this photo of Debbie and I heading west on I-8 closing in on Yuma, AZ. Riding for #MMIWC on the way to San Diego’s #MedicineWheelRide. Link to full issue below…
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WIFJ TV report on yoga 4 bikers
Thank you WIFW and Kyle Pozorski! https://www.wjfw.com/storydetails/20210823070608/connecting_yoga_to_motorcyclists\
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Brown Bag Literary – sounds of the universe – “a literary platform for art to live in conversation with one another”
Brown Bag online literary is out today including two of my contributions and many more. This issue, which they’ve titled Jackson, takes readers on a journey through the solar and lunar system in words and sounds; it highlights the individual story – and music in that story – with the complicated tangle in the biggest…
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Water Greed Shortages and Predictions
Arizona has a severe water crisis and we are headed for big problems. Desert water is precious, especially in the midst of a 26 year dry spell now called a “mega-drought.” Remember fist-fights taking place over masks? That will look like child play when water rationing starts. When we are finally forced to ration…
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Story of Yoga for Bikers – OM Yoga Magazine, May, 2021
Yoga and Leather – Yoga for Bikers Yoga for Bikers – Yoga & Leather • OM Magazine click link for full story
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Motorcycling, Free Diving, and Chess – all improved by yoga
From OM Yoga Magazine (UK) May, 2021. Thank you OM. Yoga as a life-altering gift
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Thank you OM Yoga Magazine (UK) for publishing “Yoga as a life-altering gift.”
Inspired by the breath training and yoga practice of Magnus Carlsen, eight time world Grand Chessmaster (a story from The Best American Sports writing of 2020), I found connections between Carlsen’s practices training for chess matches – that can take up to a week – and my experiences with freediving, motorcycling, and yoga. From…
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YOUR DIRTY LITTLE LIES
“Your Dirty Little Lies,” is dedicated to us for putting up with the dirty little of the politicians; this protest music and word piece emotes that story. An Anagnostis/ Ormson piece recorded in Mesa, AZ.
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IRISH music on St. Patrick’s Day at the Apache Junction Starbucks (including a limerick contest to win a Starbucks gift card)
Seven days to St. Paddy’s Day IRISH MUSIC — is there really such a thing? Yes, and Irish music takes you into its culture hook, line, and sinker. It’s known for telling powerful stories of resistance and sacrifice, land and liberty, love and loss; it cants of a thirst for the grog and flare for…
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14 things I’ve learned from my years on the planet
1 Few things are uncorrupted by money. 2 Naive optimism, hopeioid addiction, is killing us. 3 Education falls far below its potential if if it’s solely about job preparation: good education is more than job prep, it’s critical thinking and enlightenment regarding: science, politics, medicine, religion, history, culture and art (humanities) 4. The environment is…