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paulhawkwood
- Jun 13, 2022
- 2 min
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
- Nov 21, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
Barrier Reef
Barrier Reef Your tiny island has a barrier reef but the tide is rising fast. Let your castle turn back to sand and melt into the ocean’s...
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paulhawkwood
- Aug 9, 2021
- 2 min
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
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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 1, 2021
- 2 min
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 10, 2021
- 1 min
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 1, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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 27, 2020
- 2 min
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
- Dec 1, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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paulhawkwood
- Nov 17, 2020
- 2 min
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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paulhawkwood
- Jun 22, 2020
- 2 min
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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