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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....

TEAM FLAME, a Hermit Crab Essay in a baseball lineup card Batting Seventh for Team Flame, Second Base, False Fire

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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TEAM FLAME, A Hermit Crab Essay in a Baseball Card Batting sixth for Team Flame, Center Fielder, Shapeshifter

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....

TEAM FLAME, A Hermit Crab Essay in a baseball lineup card Batting Fifth fo rTeam Flame, Third Base, Desert Dust.

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....

Public Speaking as 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

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 |...

TEAM FLAME, A Hermit Crab Essay in a baseball lineup card Cleanup Hitter Antelope Ranch, First Base.

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....

TEAM FLAME, A Hermit Crab Essay in a baseball lineup card Batting third for Team Flame, Third Base, Coal.

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…...

TEAM FLAME A Hermit Crab Essay in a Lineup Card Batting second for team flame, Shortstop, Ashphalt.

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....

TEAM FLAME a Hermit Crab Essay in a baseball lineup card Batting Leadoff for Team Flame, Left Fielder, Windburn.

Meet Team Flame in the Desert, nine batters and a line-up card; a hermit crab essay about fire, memory, longing, labor, and saga. Game one begins tomorrow with team flame bunting its way into dust, past flamethrowers and umpires.

Team Flame in the Desert, A Hermit Crab Essay A hermit crab essay of team flame in a lineup card. Nine batters in the desert.

Photo story put together by stellar international motojournaliste and friend, Oliver Touron, of the 2026 Phoenix Distinguished Gentleman's Ride. It's fun yea, but it's a ride for a cause.

The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride is themed worldwide ride born in 2012 in Australia ( thanks Mark Hawa) that aims to raise money and awareness for men’s mental health, prostate cancer research, and su***de prevention. In 2026, the ride was held on Sunday,May,17. It’s the second time I ride the DGR. Last it was in Lille, France, in 2017, on my 1979 XS 650 Yamaha. This year I borrowed @acupunkontheroad ‘s 2003 Low Rider Harley-Davidson, and met my friend @motorcyclingyogig on his lovely RE 500cc at the departure line. By the time DGR started in Phoenix this year, the ride had rised $14,000. The ride took us from Phoenix Downtown to Scottsdale with a refreshing stop at Glendale and 7th street. Arizona temperature is not a joke in May. The organizers @phoenixtriumphmotorcycles were wise to think about it. I of course took one of my favorite cameras to make some memories, a #barnackiid loaded with. #kodaktrix400. What a great way to spend a sunny Sunday morning 📸🤠🏍️#distinguishedgentlemansride #dgrphoenix