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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
- Dec 7, 2023
- 13 min
The Courage To Be Examined
The benefits of gentlemanly debate, literary honesty, intellectual courage and the bobcat logic of a California mink farmer.
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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 16, 2023
- 4 min
She Came Through The Fire
How I was blessed to deliver a special message forty years after a war.
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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 29, 2023
- 11 min
Harder To Spell And More Often Hyphenated
A look at the Canadian government budgets, Vancouver money laundering and the global drug trade that asks, What if?"
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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
- Apr 6, 2023
- 4 min
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.
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Michael Hawes
- Sep 8, 2022
- 15 min
A Tale Of Three Suzukis
A fond look back at my ongoing relationship with Suzi and why we both “belong outdoors.”
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Michael Hawes
- Aug 23, 2022
- 4 min
Build A Better Mousetrap
When mice and men collide, necessity is the mother of mods. Genesis of the Hawes Modified Mousetrap.
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Michael Hawes
- Aug 16, 2022
- 11 min
Security Then And Now
A look at the yin and yang of security over a span four decades in the True North Brave and Free.
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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
- May 29, 2022
- 6 min
A Kiss On The Wind
Healing, hurting, hauling, howling and hoping on the Sea To Sky Highway.
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