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William Hazel Writes


The Museum Date
A cultural escape from culture. Culture is hard to find in our little big town. Strange, considering we have a funded district dedicated...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Apr 63 min read
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Perfumed Blue
In the blue. My reflection. Without stillness. Hard edges blurred. Moving in the light. The light so brilliant bright. With back...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Mar 292 min read
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Silent Walking
The smell of humid soaked cypress and loblolly. A pileated drills. The softwood spine of a hundred-foot pine offers the meal. Threads of...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Sep 28, 20243 min read
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The Little Things
The drip in the laundry ticks a slower time. I wonder where the water is going while watching sugar ants soldier march counter to sink...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Aug 3, 20242 min read
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The First Rain
As spring begins its reign there comes a time for the first warm hard rain. I toast the solstice. Celebrate transition. Watch the yard...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Apr 27, 20242 min read
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A Dog and A Squirrel
With a hind muscle leap from the loveseat the chase was on. Two romps across the area rug and then the clapper claw of scrambling paws...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Feb 17, 20243 min read
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End of Year Resolution
The sky on fire was a sure prompt for feeling small. In the dark of the new Moon, bundled against the last of autumn’s chill, we chaise...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Dec 21, 20232 min read
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In These Last Hours of Winter
Instead of the rush for spring, I choose to linger in these last hours of winter. In the splash-colored backdrop of daffodil and tulip...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Mar 18, 20232 min read
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December Journal
Thoughts of family, belonging, and boundary The rain falls easy thick on the last day of December. I am warmed with coffee and the...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Dec 31, 20223 min read
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Winter Solstice - Sharing the Shortest Day
It is the solstice and Winter enters with expected calm. And my neck is sometimes stiff from tilting my face towards the southern sun. In...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Dec 21, 20222 min read
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Lessons of a Self-Published Book Journey
I wrote a book. Then I self-published the book. These are two very different things, with few crossover skills. The process took much...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Sep 15, 20225 min read
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