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Michael Hawes
- Mar 2, 2022
- 17 min
How I Got My First Pay Raise
Timing is everything for an eighteen year old Lynn Valley cook with an interest in ethnobotany.
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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
- 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 13, 2022
- 72 min
Home Sweet Home, Harpocrates and A Grain Of Salt
A look at early Texas history, with a focus on the non-Native players as seen through a Texas Cherokee's perspective.
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Michael Hawes
- Dec 28, 2021
- 11 min
You Can Swim Back
Swimming at gunpoint in Beaumont, Texas, a side trip to the Alamo and playing Red’s last requested songs on the Greyhound.
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Michael Hawes
- Dec 20, 2021
- 12 min
Settling In To A Dreamless Sleep
Wedding rings, dreams, kokopillau, lightning trees, wanderers and a cotton thread running from ancient Egypt to Early Texas.
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Michael Hawes
- Dec 16, 2021
- 9 min
On The Border
Hold, fold, walk or run. We cannot escape dealing with borders both spiritual and temporal.
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Michael Hawes
- Dec 15, 2021
- 9 min
Encounters On The Good Road
Man’s best friend meets a man of constant sorrow on the Rainbow Bridge, ladies sing, a lesson is learned and a torch is passed.
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Michael Hawes
- Dec 1, 2021
- 12 min
Alternatives For The Psychotropically Shy
An egregious look at ayahuasca, modern life and ego death.
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Michael Hawes
- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
Do The Math
A song waiting fifty years for the music to lift it off a brown braided rug in Beaumont, Texas.
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Michael Hawes
- Nov 16, 2021
- 19 min
A Brief History Of The Philippines
An historical overview of the Philippines. The study of history is necessarily the study of macro-economics.
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Michael Hawes
- Oct 27, 2021
- 5 min
Spring Moon
Paying my respects to the grandmother of my first-born son. Chun Ying, you were sweet as a chicory flower and strong as the roots.
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