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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 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 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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paulhawkwood
Jan 1, 20212 min read
Sunrise in Sedona on New Year's Day (or, What's a 9:08?)
I thought I'd celebrate the dawn of the New Year (literally) by taking some sunrise photos where we live in Sedona. I consulted my...
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paulhawkwood
Dec 29, 20201 min read
Courthouse Butte - a Poem in Red Rock
Courthouse Butte I’m standing at the dirt end of Lee Mountain Road, not far from Oak Creek, watching the late rays of sun brush across...
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paulhawkwood
Dec 28, 20201 min read
I’m Losing My Coats
I’m Losing My Coats Actually the first one was a scarf a thick soft burgundy one forgotten on the coat hook of a bathroom stall in an...
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paulhawkwood
Dec 27, 20202 min read
Simplicity vs. Minimalism - Seeing More by Looking at Less.
Here's an experiment: for a few moments, gaze at this photograph while holding the word "simplicity" in your awareness. Note how the word...
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paulhawkwood
Nov 30, 20201 min read
The Beauty of Light and Shadow
This is the lampshade on my home office desk in Eugene. I took a photo of it because of how the many lines, shapes, and shadows created...
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paulhawkwood
Nov 14, 20201 min read
Beyond - a poem
This poem began with my memories of walking on the beach in Oregon, where you walk through sand dunes for a while before arriving at the...
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paulhawkwood
Nov 11, 20202 min read
Walking Through Sky and Water
When I was an English major in college, I fell in love with words—their sounds and rhythms and energies, their subtleties and brashness,...
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paulhawkwood
Jun 22, 20202 min read
Beauty, Light, and Mystery Down Under - an Invitation
What is more real - the whole, or a part of the whole? On one hand, when we see the entirety of something, we identify it with its name...
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