WILLIAM HAZEL
Worry Stone
I take my thumb and press it. Nestle it. Push it into the heart of the stone. Into the smooth place where it naturally rests. The...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Sep 152 min read
The Month You Can't See
Some months you can see coming. A mountain on the horizon. The road straight. All the green at the bottom. The red in the middle blended...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Aug 32 min read
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...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jul 62 min read
Dog Days Belly High
The through of the threshold brought no cold. The unseen comfort curtain hanging between inside and outside gone. Stepping through the...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Apr 272 min read
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...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Apr 135 min read
Visiting Brown County, Indiana
The Moon blocked the sun and we searched for vegetables and people who weren’t white. We traveled to a tourist nook named Nashville for a...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Mar 242 min read
March Sanity
I was pummeled by the flu and bought a new pair of shoes. And M accepted the virus as her own and bought a new pair of pants. And one...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Feb 173 min read
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...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Nov 22, 20233 min read
In the Middle
The fence shadows crept like ghosts back to graves and then it was the middle of the night. And then it was the middle of the month. I...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jun 1, 20232 min read
Summer Intention
The fog fell heavy, ghosting expectations for anything resembling sun or summer. The season’s first hours might have invited fresh...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Mar 18, 20232 min read
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...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Feb 25, 20232 min read
Raising New Fences
We raised new fences and the backyard smells of fresh milled pine. We being an expression of the gathering of craftsmen and apprentices...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jan 14, 20233 min read
Resolution Run
and a quest for large mimosas The 10am 5K start felt far from resolutory. Dawn would have impressed. Shivering in the New Year’s frost at...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Dec 14, 20225 min read
Driving in Hampton Roads
Life and Death on Interstate 64 Fifty-six hundred pounds of Escalade hard laid its side. A brilliant red of rescue lights reflects...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Nov 20, 20221 min read
Running To Zen - A Marathon Journey
Now available on Amazon Books My first book is about running. Running from not being able to run to running a marathon. I didn't write it...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 27, 20225 min read
Running With The Wicked
A costumed race unmasked It's one of those crazy costume races held near Halloween. I'm dressed as a vintage pilot, sans leather jacket,...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Aug 31, 20223 min read
How Yoga Ended My Back Pain In Six Months
An eighteen-wheeler introduced me to real pain. After suffering a major trauma in a collision with a vehicle ten times bigger than my...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
May 11, 20224 min read
Strolling the Old Beach Farmers Marker - A No Mask Outing to Another Dimension
No masks. That's the revelation today. And it feels weird. It feels amazing, but weird. I thought I'd have a crest the top roller coaster...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Feb 21, 20225 min read
The Three Stages of Running - and Why Stage 3 is My Favorite
It was the simplest expression of how the meaning of running changes and evolves through your life I had ever heard. And it brought one...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Feb 1, 20225 min read
Beyond Mile 20 – Three Lessons of the Marathon
I had never run a step beyond 20 miles. That was my limit. That was the longest of my long runs. Like many first-time marathoners, I had...
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