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
Jun 151 min read
This Italian Night
sparrows remain unseen though their voices surround through the lemon trees and the olive tops, the lollipop pines bees on gardenias...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Mar 169 min read
The Storm
It's 7 a.m. It is still dark and just above freezing. I'm standing in the middle of a four-lane street wearing a trash bag. It is pouring...
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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 22, 20233 min read
The January Gym
The January gym reeks of resolution and self-loathing. New faces in new clothes staining in the sweat of want and willpower and...
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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 31, 20222 min read
October Haikus - Daily haiku by the numbers
A daily haiku practice through the month of October. The date being the prompt word for each day's entry. cedarwood incense first eve...
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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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WILLIAM HAZEL
Nov 30, 20214 min read
Celebrating A Running Anniversary
I knew my life had changed when the young man in the turkey suit onesie whooshed past. I was excited to be running in my very first road...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 6, 20215 min read
Doing Yoga at Home - Three Great Resources
Yoga changed my life ten years ago. The transformation, of course, didn’t occur in the first class. The process of personal metamorphosis...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jun 17, 20213 min read
Global Running Day - Or Just Running With Neighborhood Friends Day
Global Running Day felt like a neighborhood run and I'm glad. My wife and I joined a hundred or so runners for a rainy jaunt along our...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Apr 1, 20215 min read
Trauma the Teacher - Three Life Lessons of Trauma
A tractor trailer changed everything. A split second in time when the truck’s wheels grazed the center line at the same moment my small...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
Jan 22, 20216 min read
Why Lazarus Lake's Great Virtual Race Across Tennessee is the Perfect Model for Virtual Racing
As the COVID-19 Crisis spread across the US, it left both runners and running race organizers scrambling to unriddle the mystery of how...
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