See Like a Hawk

December 11, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

We’ve had a small, juvenile hawk hanging around the house the past few weeks. It might explain the sudden disappearance of rats on our late-night security cameras. (That might also be due to the neighborhood cat that apparently likes to sleep on our front porch rocking chairs…) I snapped this picture of him/her this morning. […]

Go Higher

March 29, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

I’ve said before, I think hawks are my spirit animal. I’ve had several semi-mystical encounter with them here town. On two of my birthdays (i.e., literally on the day…) I’ve had an upclose encounter with two separate hawks, in ways that felt like a message to me. The message was something like…take courage…have strength…fear not…. […]

City Hawk

October 10, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

How about forgetting politics for a moment? Turning our heads outward and upward? Here’s a song I wrote over the weekend. It’s about my spirit animal…Hawks. Feel free to share, and hope you enjoy it. Every time I see a Hawk, especially in the city, I gasp….they take me out of my self, and my […]

An Amazing Birthday Vision

September 22, 2011.Reading time 8 minutes.

First, for the zillions of amazing and generous birthday greetings via Facebook…Thank You. Every year, I forget just how amazing this is, this Facebook-Birthday-Greeting-thing. Very likely, while I write/post this blog, I will receive the five HUNDREDTH Facebook greeting. No joke. It’s shockingly wonderful. It’s always beautiful to hear from the incredibly diversity of my […]

City Hawks

May 10, 2006.Reading time 11 minutes.

I keep seeing hawks here in North Dallas. I don’t remember ever seeing them before about six months ago. But, since then, I’ve seen maybe four or five. Most of them have been soaring high above Kiowa Creek Park, winding up and down our neighborhood tributary of White Rock Creek. They tower above the creek […]