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.
She Came Through The Fire
How I was blessed to deliver a special message forty years after a war.
Don't Wipe Your Moccasins
Welfare Wednesdays on a 1980s Vancouver East Side postal route.
Good, Bad and Ugly
A talk about soul miners, darkitects, healchemists and the Cherokee concept of "ugliness."
Endeavour Instead To Adapt The Words
Overcoming meditation hesitancy in the 21st Century.
Dancing Backwards Up The Hill
Documenting and freely sharing experiences on the road to better cognition in the 21st Century.
Seldom Seen, She Can Be Heard
Human knowledge of reality, evident in folk cultures and now preserved in academic studies, is yet still visible to those who can see.
Copper Glimmers On The Pewter Chop
Reflections on Guided Meditations or Bobcat Logic for Meditation Hesitancy (2)
Subtle As A Twig Vibrating
Texas Cherokee medicine in the 21st Century. Dignifying childhood's early quenching. Letter to my sisters by Michael Hawes.
Absence Of Desire To Take Advantage
Riding into the Year of the Tiger. Reflections on Guided Meditations or Bobcat Logic for Meditation Hesitancy (4)
The Fruits Are Gleaned By The Returning
Learning to look out the windows of my own lighthouse. Reflections on Guided Meditations or Bobcat Logic for Meditation Hesitancy (5)
Alchemists
Meditation as alchemy as bonsai. The tree becoming the gardener. Reflections on Guided Meditations. (7)
Flowers Return After Trampling Hooves
One thing I know is that everything alive will strive to heal. The physical body as well as the mercurial mind and the ethereal spirit.
Tumbleweed Letters
Anything shared with the world from your heart is a Tumbleweed Letter. Great Spirit reads them all.
Prothalamium
This is a speech I wrote and delivered to my wife, Leonisa at our wedding in 1991 at a Greek restaurant.
With Respect (2009)
Life is the unfolding of better questions. The bird nearest the earth has the prettiest song.