Michael Hawes3 days ago13 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 243 min readEssaysBåtbyggaren StrandHistory, by necessity, contains many of the devices of fiction; just as fiction cannot help but to include large doses of actual history.
Michael HawesAug 1513 min readCoffee Cup CantosRolling In Trifolium RepensA brush with my fey inner-Celt while looking over a four leaf clover.
Michael HawesAug 1113 min readEssaysThe Courage To Be ExaminedThe benefits of gentlemanly debate, literary honesty, intellectual courage and the bobcat logic of a California mink farmer.
Michael HawesJul 198 min readEssaysA Mother PelicanA look at a real Louisiana Man and what he accomplished with common sense, decency and personal fortitude.
Michael HawesJul 612 min readEssaysAcipencer Transmontanus LanguidaPondering 100 million year old fish, the “Great Inbetweenium”, Chinese graveyards, the Rivers Fraser and Meander and the tedium of luxury.
Michael HawesApr 1517 min readEssaysCircumambulations (of a tall americano)On 'twirling sunwise' and a magical Nepalese widdershins bear. A hop farm worker looks at etymology.
Michael HawesMar 97 min readEssaysAfter The CrowsExamining the parallax of progress through the generationally distorted lens of history.
Michael HawesFeb 244 min readEssaysThree DebatesThe question of why multitudes submit to doomed systems designed to benefit few, has yet to be conclusively answered.
Michael HawesFeb 1217 min readEssaysSlain By IncongruityExamining Thomas Hobbes’ epic book Leviathan through the electric mist with some honoured guests.
Michael HawesJan 13 min readEssaysMaking Dignity PossibleOn the relationship between our hearts, guts and brains.
Michael HawesNov 22, 20246 min readReviewsThree Books by Carroll QuigleyAfter reading these books, you will no longer be a history virgin but I can tell you that you will respect yourself in the morning.
Michael HawesAug 25, 202413 min readEssaysA Bestiary of WordletsA look at the medium of radio in its past, personal, present, peculiar, pernicious and predicted roles.
Michael HawesMar 17, 20243 min readCorrespondenceCongenital TwinsChanging mental pathways in the 21st century.
Michael HawesDec 20, 20238 min readCorrespondenceStart With a Single AcornCuriosity and patience through the mystery. Reflections on Guided Meditations or Bobcat Logic for Meditation Hesitancy (6)
Michael HawesDec 2, 20239 min readEssaysQuasimodo & A Bowl Of EggsA look at three books written by Douglas Reed and the Siamese twins, Religion and History.
Michael HawesNov 16, 20234 min readBank StoriesShe Came Through The FireHow I was blessed to deliver a special message forty years after a war.
