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Michael Hawes
- Feb 26, 2022
- 5 min
O Milagre do Pássaro
The tragedy of his wife's condition had been perfectly met by the care and tenderness of her husband. It was a daily lesson for me.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 24, 2022
- 10 min
Apricots and Occam's Razor
Just as it is handy to have a Swiss knife when picking apricots, it is handy to have Occam’s Razor when pondering history.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 20, 2022
- 10 min
Prairie Oysters
I spend a weekend with a school mate on a South Louisiana farm at nut-cuttin' time.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 20, 2022
- 8 min
It's The Cat You Don't See
In which I introduce three Ecuadorian compadres to the beauty of Joffre Glacier. What could possibly go wrong?
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 19, 2022
- 7 min
A Maltese Black Umbrella
A Mediterranean lady helps me uproot a childhood fear.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 15, 2022
- 11 min
Shoeshine
You can give a boy a shoeshine kit but you can't change the fact he's a hunter/gatherer.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 11, 2022
- 9 min
Corvus Urbanus
On the adaptability of crows and men when eating lunch in the urban outdoors of our era.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 10, 2022
- 10 min
To Catch A Thief
The thief stood nonchalantly and perfectly calm. He placed both hands on the counter and continued whistling softly.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 7, 2022
- 21 min
Sammy The Barber
Pondering the nature and fate of culture from a barber’s chair.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 5, 2022
- 8 min
Take It On The Chin
In which I am saved from serious injury by an ancestral Calabrian grape-vine.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 4, 2022
- 8 min
It's In The Gumbo
My Texas Cherokee grandma and I have one last "Big Time" and she gets a job offer from blues legend, Gatemouth Brown.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 3, 2022
- 4 min
Breakfast With Ben Hur
While working as a gas-fitters in North Vancouver, Lars and I have an impromptu lunch with Charlton Heston.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 2, 2022
- 14 min
The Myth of Sisyphus
My first and last days as a postie and some of the folks who helped me to cross and celebrate the finish. Busting the myth of invisibility.
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Michael Hawes
- Feb 1, 2022
- 17 min
Archaeopsychopathy
Speculations on the Logical Impact of Psychopathy on homo sapiens from Ancient Times.
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Michael Hawes
- Jan 30, 2022
- 10 min
Big Boys Don’t Cry
In which, at long last, I allow myself to cry.
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Michael Hawes
- Jan 27, 2022
- 8 min
A Mother Pelican
A look at a real Louisiana Man and what he was doing with common sense, decency and personal fortitude.
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Michael Hawes
- Jan 26, 2022
- 11 min
Medicine Show
An unexpected gig in North Vancouver. The medicine was strong that night. It was better than church.
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Michael Hawes
- Jan 23, 2022
- 6 min
They Share Without Being Trained
Looking back through a voyage of thirty-nine years. The journey hasn’t changed me much and now I have a ship’s cat.
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Michael Hawes
- Jan 20, 2022
- 5 min
The Rom: Walking In The Paths Of The Gypsies
A review of Roger Moreau's book, The Rom: Walking In The Paths Of The Gypsies.
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