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paulhawkwood
Aug 29, 20223 min read
Is it a Barrel, or a Sculpture?
Is this a barrel, or is it a sculpture of light and shadow, texture and curves? And is it simply an attractive planter, or does it have a...
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paulhawkwood
Jun 13, 20222 min read
Your Inner Pepper
Have you ever looked inside your fruits and vegetables as you're chopping them? They're quite beautiful - the rings of a carrot, the...
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paulhawkwood
Feb 12, 20221 min read
Light Leaks in Everywhere
Light leaks in everywhere – from eyelids, clouds, the edges of closed doors, and the moon in late afternoon. Blessings when you ask and...
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paulhawkwood
Jan 4, 20222 min read
Wonder and Gratitude - a Starry Night and the Sound of Onions Cooking.
Many mornings we awaken before the sun has begun to illuminate the eastern sky. We turn our lights off after making ourselves café lattes...
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paulhawkwood
Dec 12, 20212 min read
Fountain, Curves, Concrete, Water
Fountain Water is beyond my mind, flowing fluidly over the lip of the fountain and splashing into the pond beneath, over and over....
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paulhawkwood
Nov 21, 20213 min read
Tree Worlds, Tree Words
Recently I spend some time in a friend's backyard, and as I wandered through her garden, I noticed a tree stump that looked like it had...
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paulhawkwood
Oct 14, 20211 min read
The Beautiful Sewer
I enjoy seeing beauty in things that my mind initially overlooks or judges negatively. I was struck by this manhole cover while I was...
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paulhawkwood
Aug 9, 20212 min read
The Numinous: Sacredness and Light
I love the word numinous as a word for describing that which we call holy or spiritually alive. One definition of numinous means, "to be...
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paulhawkwood
Aug 2, 20212 min read
The Play of Yin and Yang - Seeing the World in Black and White, Old and New.
Each day I take a walk on the street I live on, and it ends on the corner where these stones and grasses offer a dramatic juxtaposition...
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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 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
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 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 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 17, 20202 min read
Seeing What Can be Seen
It's interesting how a camera can teach us to see. The world is so utterly full of objects, places, shapes and shadows, color and light,...
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