A wood duck found a nesting cavity in this oak hit by lightning. Taking it to the lake I carved the rotted wood into a drum. Years later I took it to my father's burial & marked his life with my hand on the batter head.
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Yep. And never will.
DAMN straight.
I don't rush. I return to the work. Emergence, priming the pump.
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At first, only sound.
Then rhythm takes hold.
Then the water comes.
Stories emerge the same way.
A lyric memoir from a Northwoods cabin, where labor and attention shape a life at human speed. A red pump, a wood stove, a loon-loud lake, a sustained search for meaning.
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Knowledge happens in ways not always understood; we think it's because of our effort or self-improvement toward mastery of skill, but yoga suggests other forces are involved. I explore this in my latest article in March OM Yoga Magazine. See it here gregoryormson.com/2026/03/19/t...
I recorded Yoga Song as it was meant to be experienced: it's a book in breath, in rhythm, in a human voice with a few original songs.
If you wonder what an inner practice put into story and song sounds like, this is a place to begin.
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I once saw a single work completed. Nothing decorative but everything necessary; the rare moment when a task is finished completely. Dig. Dump. Bury. Cover.
My lyric micro nonfic "Liturgist of the Land: A Single Work Completed." #lyricessay, #nonfiction, #writing
Does anyone experience a single work completed?
A short lyric essay on labor, burial, and the rare moment when a task is finished completely.
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When the Blackbird Talks to the Crow: Rhiannon Giddens and the Music of Liberation
What I’d give to sing just one song in hope-filled voice with Rhiannon Giddens. I’d heard her in Michigan when I sat on the ground; right, there, ten, feet, away — watching and listening — my mouth agape, ears…
Bamboo Floor, Lava Rock: At the Edge of the Turn
This essay was originally published in OM Yoga Magazine February 19, 2026 - This essay reflects on yoga and chronic pain as lived experience rather than theory. After years of back injury and pain, I began a practice that through spinal movement,…
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The Body That Remembers (Om Yoga Magazine, January 2026)
In “The Body That Remembers,” a father confronts pain, lineage, and limits as yoga becomes a discipline of return. What begins as an attempt to fix a failing back opens into a reckoning with inheritance carried in fascia, breath, and memory.…
"I pledge allegiance to the human race." Edward Abbey.
Me too, because anything beyond that gets further from compassion. Put on a little hat, salute a flag, follow a creed. And boom, before ya know it, ya gotta bunch of rules and exclusions.
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Beoming the Breath, a Journey Through Yoga’s Inner Weather
The 104th of my "yogainspirationals" in Om Yoga Magazine January, 2026 We’ve all walked into a yoga room feeling less than whole: sluggish, stiff, and unprepared for anything resembling transformation. I did recently; my body ached, my…
A simple gym sign offered two choices: relive 2025 or skip ahead to 2027. What struck me was the absence of a third option: to fully live in the unmarked year, to embrace the present. I explore the importance of staying awake in the current moment, reflecting on what has passed & what approaches.
Tom Waits and a Hat Full of Rain
Image: Author’s Own Tom Waits and A Hat Full of Rain In the turning gyre of Midwestern rain and storms, life fired a curiosity that drove me to take the path of wonder in simple things, like delicate rain. Walking in the rain, I hear a child, and like the grass,…
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Rocky Point Motorcycle Rally, Puerto Penasco, Mexico where fantasy and bikes rattle the sea gregoryormson.com/2025/11/11/m...
Hawaiian Landscape and Internal Transformation: A Yoga Story of Meditation, Writing, and Hope gregoryormson.com/2025/10/04/h...
Hawaiian Landscape and Internal Transformation: a Yoga Story of Meditation, Writing, and Hope
The story of one man’s emotional healing and personal transformation through the power of yoga—his bending, rising, and breathing—is connected to a unifying "yoke" and the intention for a common humanity.…
