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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?...

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Mar 12, 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

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 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

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,...

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Jan 10, 20211 min read

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...

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Jan 8, 20213 min read

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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Jan 1, 20212 min read

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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Dec 29, 20201 min read

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...

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Dec 28, 20201 min read

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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Dec 27, 20202 min read

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...

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Nov 30, 20201 min read

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...

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Nov 14, 20201 min read

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,...

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Nov 11, 20202 min read

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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Jun 22, 20202 min read

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Paul Hawkwood

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Smiling and Happiness - a poem and some research.

Water and Light - Seville's fountain

Commute

Moon in Afternoon

The Monk's Door

Concrete

The Breakfast Bowl: Art or Awareness?

Walled Light

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

A Frame Around the Infinite

Eyes, Live Grasses, and Photography

Intuition, Dead Grasses, and Photography

Sunrise in Sedona on New Year's Day (or, What's a 9:08?)

Courthouse Butte - a Poem in Red Rock

I’m Losing My Coats

Simplicity vs. Minimalism - Seeing More by Looking at Less.

The Beauty of Light and Shadow

Beyond - a poem

Walking Through Sky and Water

Beauty, Light, and Mystery Down Under - an Invitation

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