Artemisia

A brush with my fey inner-Celt while looking over a four leaf clover.

Early autist sketches from the front pews.

An egregious look at ayahuasca, modern life and ego death.

On the relationship between our hearts, guts and brains.

A talk about the distinctions between Faith and Belief.

A look at three books written by Douglas Reed and the Siamese twins, Religion and History.

A look at the genesis, adaptation, mutation and classification of religions.

Guru Gobind Singh meets Joseph Smith on a Vancouver sidewalk, who then meets the Lynn Valley Buddha. Story by Michael Hawes.

On the fabric created by weaving music, religion and art into a Giordano Bruno tee-shirt.

Everything unknown is held to be magnificent. An exploration of that fact in human terms.

Human knowledge of reality, evident in folk cultures and now preserved in academic studies, is yet still visible to those who can see.

Texas Cherokee medicine in the 21st Century. Dignifying childhood's early quenching. Letter to my sisters by Michael Hawes.

This is a speech I wrote and delivered to my wife, Leonisa at our wedding in 1991 at a Greek restaurant.

Deer hunting in the the headlights of unheeded intuition.

Pondering Restorative Justice.

Cogitations on the nature, utility and history of rules from Scrabble to Tikal and Lagash.

Sketches of the author and his father. A small stack of enigmatic postcards stashed in the covers of a diary that hurt to write.

Just as it is handy to have a Swiss knife when picking apricots, it is handy to have Occam’s Razor when pondering history.