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06/13/2026

Yoga’s Curriculum for Self Integration

When I started yoga, I thought it was about people bending into forms that were, at first, perplexing. But yoga moves in its own way, and I had much to learn. Yoga's curriculum for self integration At first, I practiced to feel better. Then I practiced to learn alignment. Then I wanted to accomplish more asanas. As a dedicated student, I paid attention to words from my teachers as their guidance into the correct placement of my feet, hands, and my gaze. I followed instructions for breathing and listened closely for techniques and transitions, and at the end of practice, I lay down with other yogis in stillness, like a motorcycle resting on its jiffy-stand....

At first, I practiced to feel better. Then I practiced to learn alignment. Then I wanted to accomplish more asanas. As a dedicated student, I paid attention

06/09/2026

DGR 2026 photos by Oliver Touron, taken with a 1935 Leica Barnack IID camera. See the tight shot of riders gathered in front of the Pullman Coach, at the Phoenix RR Museum post-ride.
The 2026 ride:
120,000 rides, 1070 cities, 109 countries, 7.5 million USD raised for Movember's Prostate Cancer Research and Men's Mental Health programs worldwide.

06/07/2026

TEAM FLAME, a Hermit Crab Essay in a baseball lineup card

Nine At-Bats BATTING SEVENTH Number 12, Second Base, FALSE FIRE (Coaches note: known for the glove and turning the double play) I spent years looking for the dramatic burning bush while overlooking the smaller flames surrounding me. The welder’s torch.Lantern light at the cabin.Woodstoves in February.The flare of match heads.Campfire smoke and flame registered in flannel jackets.The orange tip of sunset over Arizona's red rocks, Hawaiian Pacific swells, or azure Wisconsin lakes. Moses would have missed the light too if he had been waiting for the big spectacle....

Batting Seventh for Team Flame, Second Base, False Fire

06/06/2026

TEAM FLAME, A Hermit Crab Essay in a Baseball Card

Nine At-Bats in a Lineup Card BATTING SIXTH Number 97, Center Field, SHAPESHIFTER (Coaches note: the sneakiest batter in the lineup) Walking behind him in New Delhi, he turned and laughed at me. His brown buttocks visible through threadbare pants, a thrush testing the limits of cover. He turned into an alley. Fifteen seconds later I followed. He was gone. No doors.No windows.No exits. A blackbird remained on the narrow asphalt corridor. It cried once, lifted upward like a funeral in feathers, laughed again, then vanished. I still do not know how....

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Batting sixth for Team Flame, Center Fielder, Shapeshifter

06/05/2026

TEAM FLAME, A Hermit Crab Essay in a baseball lineup card

Nine at bats. BATTING FIFTH Number 97, Center Field, Shapeshifter (Coaches note: all hit or miss, takes a big swing) Sitting on rocks, I recalled Gary Snyder’s line: “The closer you get to real matter -- rock, air, fire, wood -- the more spiritual the world is.” Under the tree and above the hard ground, matter and spirit no longer seemed separate categories. In Wyoming’s Red Desert, I was not in Plato’s school of pure thought and logic, but in the empirical school where heat itself became instruction. Everything was dusty, dry, and hot....

Batting Fifth fo rTeam Flame, Third Base, Desert Dust.

06/04/2026

Public Speaking as Hospitality

A New Book with Sutra House I am pleased to share that I have signed with Sutra House Publishing for my forthcoming book on public speaking, service, and hospitality. It's debut will be some time in 2027. This book has grown from years of speaking, teaching, listening, leading, preaching, writing, and standing before rooms attempting to meet listeners with relevant words and intentional presence. Over time, I kept notes on teaching and speaking as they helped me to refine my teaching and speaking approach. Speaking is not performance. Speaking is hospitality....

I am pleased to share that I have signed with Sutra House Publishing for my forthcoming book on public speaking, service, and hospitality. It's debut will be

06/04/2026

TEAM FLAME, A Hermit Crab Essay in a baseball lineup card

A Hermit Crab Essay, Nine At-Bats in a Lineup Card BATTING CLEANUP Number 14, First Base, Antelope Ranch (Coaches note: power and contact) Motorcycling headlong into July’s hot wind, I was nearly there when I turned onto a dirt road and rumbled fifteen miles over boulders and ditches strewn with whitewashed bones: antelope skeletons, scattered ribs, skulls bleached by sun. I was on the way to Antelope Ranch, Wyoming. Say it out loud now and hear how the word rolls off your tongue: | An-tel-lope | | An-te-lope | | An-te-lope |...

Cleanup Hitter Antelope Ranch, First Base.

06/03/2026

TEAM FLAME, A Hermit Crab Essay in a baseball lineup card

A Hermit Crab Essay, Nine At-Bats in a Lineup Card BATTING THIRD Number 5, Third Base, Coal (Coaches note: the best hitter) In the lineup’s three hole, the hitter must have power and make contact. In the summer season of my life, when I was full of velocity and ambition, I was that power aiming for contact whenever heat met me and drove me forth in radiant passages. In ways, I was Hopkins’ just man in going graces even when dark heat charred the fields of my heart and scarred me like burning coal....

Batting third for Team Flame, Third Base, Coal.

06/02/2026

TEAM FLAME, A Hermit Crab Essay in a Lineup Card

A Hermit Crab Essay, Nine At-Bats in a Lineup Card BATTING SECOND Number 4, Short Stop, Asphalt (Coaches note: the fastest runner) On desert rides heat is built into the asphalt like a burning memory. In the desert’s hot waves, I recall Midwest summers when ball fields baked under August suns and my heart learned how quickly it could burn and how slowly it could mend. Summer, heat, the Midwest, and the roads aflame. It's where I learned that blacktop exists, like the umpires’, to enforce the commandments: endurecontinue…...

Batting second for team flame, Shortstop, Ashphalt.

06/01/2026

TEAM FLAME, a Hermit Crab Essay in a baseball lineup card

The prophets received pillars of fire; Moses the eternal flame. I only get UV warnings and dehydration. But revelation always begins in these emptying’s and abrasions, so voided and cut, I’ll aim for the pitch when it comes in hot and burning. That’s what team flame does, we’re nine batters chasing heat....

Batting Leadoff for Team Flame, Left Fielder, Windburn.