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Ann Hawkins

Weekend musings …

I love it when a novel teaches me things I didn’t know or had only a vague idea about.

3 min readApr 6, 2024

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Weekend musings …

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Ann Hawkins

Cairns

“Poetry outlasts everything. It’s a primeval spirit. It’s probably the first speech. It comes with speech. It’s what children do, when they…

2 min readApr 6, 2024

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Cairns

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Ann Hawkins

What do girls on bikes have to do with GDP and IWD?

What do girls on bikes have to do with International Women’s Day and measuring Gross Domestic Product? Aurora Ventures (Europe) Limited own…

2 min readMar 8, 2024

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What do girls on bikes have to do with GDP and IWD?

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Ann Hawkins

You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.

– Louise Bourgeois

3 min readDec 5, 2023

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You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.

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Ann Hawkins

What does it mean to be human?

Some thoughts from Professor Julia Steinberger https://profjuliasteinberger.wordpress.com/

3 min readNov 19, 2023

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What does it mean to be human?

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Ann Hawkins

The Things You Don’t Know You Know

Are you wandering around in a fog about life? Think everyone else has all the answers? You almost certainly know more than you, yourself…

4 min readNov 8, 2023

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The Things You Don’t Know You Know

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Ann Hawkins

If Peace Were a Prize

The world of fable teaches us that even our most precious values are contingent, or won at great cost.

12 min readNov 6, 2023

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If Peace Were a Prize

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Ann Hawkins

Orange Energy by Jennifer Healey

All I want to do is delight —

2 min readOct 26, 2023

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Orange Energy by Jennifer Healey

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Ann Hawkins

“ART IS NOT BEAUTY OR NOVELTY; ART IS EFFECTIVENESS AND DISRUPTION.” — LEÓN FERRARI

I was invited to an event called “Practices of Refusal :Art and the Obsession with Participation” so of course I went down a rabbit hole…

3 min readOct 19, 2023

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“ART IS NOT BEAUTY OR NOVELTY; ART IS EFFECTIVENESS AND DISRUPTION.” — LEÓN FERRARI

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Ann Hawkins

Times change and we change with them.

“We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the…

2 min readOct 14, 2023

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Times change and we change with them.

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Ann Hawkins

Ann Hawkins

Blogging since 2005, this space is for things not directly connected to my businesses. Art, world events, jazz, gardening, and amazing people doing great things

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