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paulhawkwood
- Aug 29, 2022
- 3 min
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, 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
- Apr 6, 2022
- 2 min
Forest Stairs, Quiet Light
I find something captivating about stairs, especially ones that spiral or move in harmony with a building space or landscape. The stairs...
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paulhawkwood
- Dec 12, 2021
- 2 min
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, 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
- Oct 14, 2021
- 1 min
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 2, 2021
- 2 min
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
- May 5, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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paulhawkwood
- Mar 30, 2021
- 2 min
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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paulhawkwood
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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 28, 2021
- 2 min
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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paulhawkwood
- Jan 23, 2021
- 1 min
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
- 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 21, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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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
- Nov 14, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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paulhawkwood
- Oct 24, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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