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paulhawkwood
Apr 4, 20212 min read
Priest Lake and Living Silence
Priest Lake We step down from the truck onto the logging road west of Priest Lake. We step into silence too – the creaking of our engine...
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paulhawkwood
Mar 30, 20212 min read
Thinking about God, the World, and Hats.
Recently I've been reflecting on the ways we think about God. It seems we think about God in the only way we can - as a very large...
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paulhawkwood
Mar 22, 20211 min read
The Inner Kitchen
The Cubist Kitchen: A Silent Poem The windows reflect a cubist kitchen, the inner and outer panes a bit askew, projecting and reflecting...
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paulhawkwood
Mar 16, 20211 min read
Art and The Garage
Many, many years ago - ok, decades ago - I spent a summer making leather goods with a friend in Central City, Colorado. Most of it was...
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paulhawkwood
Mar 12, 20211 min read
Smiling and Happiness - a poem and some research.
Smile Smiling sends synapses flying even if you're sad, it seems - so which is real? The face of sorrow or the chemistry of a grin?...
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paulhawkwood
Mar 6, 20213 min read
Two Selves
Here’s an experiment: how many selves do you find within yourself? (I’m not talking about multiple personalities…) Most of us play many...
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paulhawkwood
Mar 1, 20211 min read
Swimming in Miracles
My heart, once cool and quiet is now alive with light. More and more, short poems come to me when I sit down to write. As I've thought...
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paulhawkwood
Feb 28, 20212 min read
Water and Light - Seville's fountain
This is the fountain in the Plaza de España in Seville, Spain, where my wife and I spent a few days in June of 2015. The color version...
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paulhawkwood
Feb 23, 20211 min read
Commute
On my right, a dust-devil twirls in a bare plowed field. Beyond lies the Coast Range, a violet trace across the horizon. Between us,...
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paulhawkwood
Feb 21, 20212 min read
Moon in Afternoon
I have discovered the sky. One of the things I relish about being in Arizona is not just how clear the sky is, but how vast it is. Here,...
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paulhawkwood
Feb 9, 20212 min read
The Monk's Door
This is a beautiful wooden door at the Briar Patch Inn, a few miles up Oak Creek from uptown Sedona, Arizona. It's a beautiful place to...
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paulhawkwood
Feb 2, 20211 min read
Concrete
Concrete By Paul Hawkwood How warm is the rock on our roads? What rocky consciousness lies there? There’s no beating blood in the...
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paulhawkwood
Feb 1, 20212 min read
The Breakfast Bowl: Art or Awareness?
About four years ago, I pulled my iPhone out of my pocket and took (made? created? shot?) a photograph of my breakfast bowl. As I sat...
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paulhawkwood
Jan 26, 20212 min read
Jetstream, and a bird story
Jetstream Clouds swim in the second sea, floating in an ocean of air. Their waters rise and fall, and the wind is their tide. I am their...
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paulhawkwood
Jan 23, 20211 min read
Walled Light
This is the corner of a bedroom in our house in Sedona. This is part of the original house, which my wife's father and mother built...
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paulhawkwood
Jan 16, 20212 min read
"Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen" - My Experience and the Video
For a number of years, singing sacred choral music was my main spiritual practice - I loved singing in church and college choirs....
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paulhawkwood
Jan 15, 20211 min read
A Me and a You
A Me and a You They say there is a me and a you which equals a one and a one and a two. But how small is that two compared to me and you...
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paulhawkwood
Jan 10, 20211 min read
A Frame Around the Infinite
Window The clock says it’s time to raise the shades, look out the window, see the sun gliding through the grass. You can see more when...
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paulhawkwood
Jan 10, 20211 min read
Eyes, Live Grasses, and Photography
It's winter. Why not refresh yourself by experiencing soft-focus grasses gently playing in subdued light! It's ok - your brain, heart,...
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paulhawkwood
Jan 8, 20213 min read
Intuition, Dead Grasses, and Photography
What does it mean to know something? When I read a non-fiction book, for example, my mind generally understands the information in a...
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