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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...
paulhawkwood
Jan 10, 20211 min read
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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,...
paulhawkwood
Jan 10, 20211 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Jan 8, 20213 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Jan 1, 20212 min read
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The World As a Play, the Self as the Actor
We've probably all heard various ways of saying that life is like a dream or play. But have we really given that idea much thought? For...
paulhawkwood
Dec 30, 20202 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Dec 29, 20201 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Dec 28, 20201 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Dec 27, 20202 min read
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Grates and Gratefulness Under the Sun
Ok, it's a so-so pun, but I think this rusted iron grating suggests the beautiful interconnection and wholeness we can experience when we...
paulhawkwood
Dec 1, 20202 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Nov 30, 20201 min read
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Desert Sunset, Desert Clouds
One of the things I love about living in Sedona is the wondrous play of light at sunrise and sunset. Often the high clouds break up into...
paulhawkwood
Nov 28, 20201 min read
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A Portrait by My Mother...and the Portraits We Make of Ourselves
A few months ago I re-found some drawings my mother made. I probably had seen them a very long time ago, but when I found them this past...
paulhawkwood
Nov 21, 20202 min read
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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,...
paulhawkwood
Nov 17, 20202 min read
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The Heart Persists
I was walking by a retirement home in Eugene one morning on the way to our meditation center when I saw this simple heart drawn on the...
paulhawkwood
Nov 15, 20201 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Nov 14, 20201 min read
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Up or Down...or Pausing and Seeing
A staircase in the Willamette National Forest creates both a practical means of getting up and down a hill, and a beautiful sculpture of...
paulhawkwood
Nov 14, 20202 min read
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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,...
paulhawkwood
Nov 11, 20202 min read
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Chairs, Normalcy, and Sitting out the Pandemic
While I'm waiting for my latte to be made at our favorite coffee shop one Sunday morning, I look around the usually-busy cafe at all the...
paulhawkwood
Oct 24, 20201 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Jun 22, 20202 min read
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"Who Would You Be Without Your Story?" - Byron Katie's method for questioning painful beliefs.
Most of the stories we tell ourselves aren't really real... Sun umbrella reflection on glass picnic table. Have you ever noticed how your...
paulhawkwood
May 18, 20201 min read
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