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From the pen and lens of Michael Hawes
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Michael Hawes
- Dec 16, 2023
- 13 min
Rolling In Trifolium Repens
A brush with my fey inner-Celt while looking over a four leaf clover.
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Michael Hawes
- Dec 9, 2023
- 7 min
A Liu Shap Guy
My mid-life crisis is shot down before it has a chance to blossom into full flower.
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Michael Hawes
- Nov 18, 2023
- 13 min
Last Of The Starched Khakis
How I learned to bridge the inter-generational empathy gap between co-workers in a variety of employment scenarios using Bobcat Logic.
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Michael Hawes
- Nov 4, 2023
- 19 min
Steer Into It
Two kinds of snow, two kinds of teachers, chips, giggles and two kinds of spanakopita with the aim of opening the third sphincter.
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Michael Hawes
- Oct 1, 2023
- 7 min
The Flat Tinkle of Cheap Metal
How I came to wear those little bells on my key-chain.
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Michael Hawes
- Sep 1, 2023
- 12 min
Don't Wipe Your Moccasins
Welfare Wednesdays on a 1980s Vancouver East Side postal route.
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Michael Hawes
- Aug 26, 2023
- 7 min
A Latter Day Sikh
Guru Gobind Singh meets Joseph Smith on a Vancouver sidewalk, who then meets the Lynn Valley Buddha. Story by Michael Hawes.
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Michael Hawes
- Jul 19, 2023
- 7 min
Hammer It Like Hagi
World Cup Fever, drive-by shootings and an epic East Vancouver corner kick.
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Michael Hawes
- Jul 31, 2022
- 10 min
When The Student Is Ready
We are all students and teachers by turns. Of mice and men, dollars and sins, winners who lose and losers who win.
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Michael Hawes
- May 30, 2022
- 6 min
Bringing The Bacon To Work
After my first year delivering mail, I decided that it was my turn to bring in some treats.
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Michael Hawes
- Mar 13, 2022
- 13 min
Peering Into The Abyss
They say if you peer too long into the abyss, it will begin to look back at you.
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Michael Hawes
- Mar 10, 2022
- 6 min
A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi
In which two young dogs encounter two old cats and learn to appreciate Sinatra.
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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 19, 2022
- 7 min
A Maltese Black Umbrella
A Mediterranean lady helps me uproot a childhood fear.
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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 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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