Tag: #Arizona
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Arizona Water Greed, Shortages, and Predictions of Violence
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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WE STILL STAND
“We still stand.” An Agnostis/Ormson collaboration dedicated to ongoing and growing movement for change driven, in part, by the activism of #MMIWRiders and #mmiwg #rideformmiw #NoMoreStolenSisters keyboard, composition, photos and video randy anagnostis. lyric, background sounds, and vocal gregory ormson Original song, “Indigenous Souls.”
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“We Still Stand” spoken word music for Indigenous resiliance and tenacity
Many thanks to the #mmiwriders for allowing us to support and be part of the 2021 San Diego Medicine Wheel Ride. The many thousands of murdered and missing Indigenous Sisters is beyond tragic. The efforts created by #mmiw – to champion greater awareness and change – are necessary and commendable. ⊕ FAST FACTS: “In 2016, there were…
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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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Talking Story and Riding the Medicine Wheel #rideformmiw
Truer than ever before, much of the world was asleep in their screens during 2020. Television, cell phones, and computers offered connections during the worst of the world-wide pandemic, but connections sans touch. Such connections seem void of what I’d call true encounter. An incarnated connection is more real for it’s in the flesh…
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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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Sickness Givers and the Shape of Hope: a three part spoken word and music series on life and human existence during the pandemic by Randy Anagnostis and Gregory Ormson
Sickness Givers and the Shape of Hope part I. 2:22 (Navajo) Sickness Givers and the Shape of Hope part II. 3:01 (India) Sickness Givers and the Shape of Hope part III. 7:01 (Earth)
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GET IT DONE IN ’21: forty days of austerity measures to stop the virus
If Arizona were to adopt an integrated austerity program, we could stop COVID. It would require 40 days of isolation, but without doing it, COVID will drag on and the Arizona Republic will keep limping along with no solution. A committed public and government could “Get it Done in 21,” but my suggestions will be…
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2020 We Can’t Go On. 2021 We Must Go On
Artists’ respond, aiming to align wonder, word, and music. They lean into imagining what the tree sees in relationships, in children, and in backyard dreams. Thorburn’s tree is a witness to life in the yard, the house, in the sky above, and the buckling sidewalk below; the whole tree-is-us in our tangled roots and bent…