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Gregory Ormson’s O-Rings – this is a place for work shaped by breath, motion, land, and listening. My life moves through many forms: writer, drummer and musician, motorcycle rider, teacher, yogi, but the practice between them is singlular and consistent . . . pay attention.

I am keenly interested in the polarities between inclusion and exclusion; and how a human being learns to belong to time, to landscape, to themselves and to the body’s own knowing.

My life and writing travels between northern lakes and desert roads, between discipline and improvisation, between the quiet labor of the page and the hot energy of the open road. Whether I am teaching, turning a sentence, striking a drum or chord, or riding into long weather, I strive to understand life’s coherence in a difficult and demanding time.

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  • Humpback Aria

    A stellar original composition and keyboard piece by this man, Randy Anagnostis, he calls “Queen Creek.” Lyric and vocal interpretation from portions of an essay I’ve been writing exploring the inner dimensions of free diving. Anagnostis at the keyboard.        

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  • Phoenix area video for THE WORLDWIDE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN’S RIDE 2020

    Phoenix area video for THE WORLDWIDE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN’S RIDE 2020

    #dprdapperchallenge 2020 – Phoenix riders for men’s health See our Phoenix area video under my IGTV tab and watch for clips of yoga for health and riders We’re asking all our friends to share this video and share widely by liking, and promoting it with this hashtag: #dprdapperchallenge Putting the fun in fundraising for a

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  • “Earth Teach” from a Ute Prayer

    Video of wild Mustang grazing in the Arizona desert, filmed by Randy Anagnostis and accompanied by his original music and keyboard playing. We collaborated on a project which asked for a reading of Earth Teach fitted to a natural scene.

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  • NATIONAL POETRY MONTH: a poetry/song series the last 8 days of April. Poem/song number, 1 “Whale Song.”

    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 eight songs/poems posted over the next 8 days of April will close out NATIONAL POETRY MONTH for 2020. Russell Thorburn plays “Chelsea Hotel,” a composition he

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