Michael HawesMar 1315 min readCoffee Cup CantosSpirit WolfHow I came to learn my Cherokee clan membership, Aniwaya.
Michael HawesMar 312 min readPostal StoriesDon't Wipe Your MoccasinsWelfare Wednesdays on a 1980s Vancouver East Side postal route.
Michael HawesJan 269 min readCoffee Cup CantosEncounters On The Good RoadMan’s best friend meets a man of constant sorrow on the Rainbow Bridge, ladies sing, a lesson is learned and a torch is passed.
Michael HawesDec 2, 202513 min readCoffee Cup CantosSettling In To A Dreamless SleepWedding rings, dreams, kokopillau, lightning trees, wanderers and a cotton thread running from ancient Egypt to Early Texas.
Michael HawesSep 8, 202515 min readEssaysOn Women and PhilosophersAbout the dual unmasking of the underlying temerity of women and the underlying timorousness of men.
Michael HawesJul 28, 202510 min readCorrespondenceThree Texas Cherokee PajosI have made a “big medicine,” sixty years in the making. Reflections on Guided Meditations or Bobcat Logic for Meditation Hesitancy (3)
Michael HawesMay 26, 20255 min readCoffee Cup CantosSpring MoonPaying my respects to the grandmother of my first-born son. Chun Ying, you were sweet as a chicory flower and as strong as the roots.
Michael HawesJan 7, 202512 min readEssaysAlternatives For The Psychotropically ShyAn egregious look at ayahuasca, modern life and ego death.
Michael HawesNov 11, 20246 min readEssaysThey Share Without Being TrainedLooking back through a voyage of thirty-nine years. The journey hasn’t changed me much and now I have a ship’s cat.
Michael HawesSep 19, 20248 min readCoffee Cup CantosIt's In The GumboMy Texas Cherokee grandma and I have one last "Big Time" and she gets a job offer from blues legend, Gatemouth Brown.
Michael HawesSep 9, 20243 min readReviewsMyths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulae of the CherokeesOne morning, as the sun rose, I walked around the big scar made by the machines and put an offering of tobacco inside a large coyote track.
Michael HawesAug 16, 20249 min readEssaysOn The BorderHold, fold, walk or run. We cannot escape dealing with borders both spiritual and temporal.
Michael HawesNov 8, 202312 min readEssaysVery Thick IndeedA horseback ride along the Möbius strip of human history, pondering the Relativity of Wisdom, from before never to after forever.
Michael HawesJul 25, 20234 min readEssaysGood, Bad and UglyA talk about soul miners, darkitects, healchemists and the Cherokee concept of "ugliness."
Michael HawesApr 7, 20233 min readCorrespondenceThey Need To Go HomeChanging spiritual pathways in the 21st Century.
Michael HawesApr 3, 20235 min readCorrespondenceSubtle As A Twig VibratingTexas Cherokee medicine in the 21st Century. Dignifying childhood's early quenching. Letter to my sisters by Michael Hawes.
Michael HawesMar 28, 202315 min readCorrespondenceFlowers Return After Trampling HoovesOne thing I know is that everything alive will strive to heal. The physical body as well as the mercurial mind and the ethereal spirit.
