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Jutta's Stairs
Jutta's Stairs Something ascends and descends these stairs. What is it? Sunlight? Song? Silence? It is a mystery. Bach the old magician...
paulhawkwood
May 5, 20211 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Apr 13, 20212 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Apr 7, 20211 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Apr 4, 20212 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Mar 30, 20212 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Mar 22, 20211 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Mar 16, 20211 min read
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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?...
paulhawkwood
Mar 12, 20211 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Mar 6, 20213 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Mar 1, 20211 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Feb 28, 20212 min read
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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,...
paulhawkwood
Feb 23, 20211 min read
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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,...
paulhawkwood
Feb 21, 20212 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Feb 9, 20212 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Feb 2, 20211 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Feb 1, 20212 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Jan 26, 20212 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Jan 23, 20211 min read
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"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....
paulhawkwood
Jan 16, 20212 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Jan 15, 20211 min read
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