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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...
paulhawkwood
Aug 29, 20223 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Jun 13, 20222 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Apr 6, 20222 min read
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Light Leaks in Everywhere
Light leaks in everywhere – from eyelids, clouds, the edges of closed doors, and the moon in late afternoon. Blessings when you ask and...
paulhawkwood
Feb 12, 20221 min read
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Seeing Small Beauty
A few weeks ago we awoke to a light frost. When my wife and I stepped out on our second floor balcony to look around, I noticed that the...
paulhawkwood
Jan 13, 20221 min read
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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....
paulhawkwood
Dec 12, 20212 min read
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Golden Graffiti, Golden Words
Recently I went to see the Arizona Copper Museum in Clarkdale, a small mining town about an hour from Sedona, with my sister and...
paulhawkwood
Nov 24, 20212 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Nov 21, 20213 min read
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The Doorway
This is one of my earliest digital photographs, taken in December of 2011, during one of my walks in our neighborhood in Sedona. I was...
paulhawkwood
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Oct 14, 20211 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Aug 9, 20212 min read
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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...
paulhawkwood
Aug 2, 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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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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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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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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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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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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