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Water World, Water Music

Water World The world is wrapped in water – wobbling and washing, sloshing and sliding, dripping and swishing - it sings as it swims. A...

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Apr 13, 20212 min read

Is it Art if it's Done by a Computer?

What makes something art? Does it need to be done by a human? I was looking through my photographs the other day and found this...

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Apr 7, 20211 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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Apr 4, 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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Mar 30, 20212 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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Mar 22, 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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Mar 16, 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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Mar 12, 20211 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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Mar 6, 20213 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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Mar 1, 20211 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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Feb 28, 20212 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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Feb 23, 20211 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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Feb 21, 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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Feb 9, 20212 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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Feb 2, 20211 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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Feb 1, 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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Jan 26, 20212 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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Jan 23, 20211 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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Jan 16, 20212 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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Jan 15, 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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Jan 10, 20211 min read

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Paul Hawkwood

Learning to See

Water World, Water Music

Is it Art if it's Done by a Computer?

Priest Lake and Living Silence

Thinking about God, the World, and Hats.

The Inner Kitchen

Art and The Garage

Smiling and Happiness - a poem and some research.

Two Selves

Swimming in Miracles

Water and Light - Seville's fountain

Commute

Moon in Afternoon

The Monk's Door

Concrete

The Breakfast Bowl: Art or Awareness?

Jetstream, and a bird story

Walled Light

"Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen" - My Experience and the Video

A Me and a You

A Frame Around the Infinite

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