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Gentle Lunacy
He wandered our small town'smid-century streets,disconnected wonder in his face. "A lunatic," mother said,though such gentle lunacyseemed a truer way to greet lifethan how we(busy, busy)leaped past it. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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What If?
What iflocked inside of methere is an individualso brilliantly creative,so astonishingly original,that, if liberated,he would revolutionize medicine or literature or technology or psychology or peace-making or religion? What if fear has kept him hiddenall these decades? What if… Continue reading
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This Morning
Furnace hums;coffee mug warms hands;cat on lap chews pen. This morning,too contentto write. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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It’s Over
"Put the tinsel down,"she said. "But…but, I'm not ready,"I protested. "We have to put this stuff away.We've talked about this." "But why?Why do we have to put it away?Why not leave it up all year?" "Because if it were up… Continue reading
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Hybrids
History embeds the arrival of the new yearwithin the season of Christmas(day eight, to be exact),which means we scan 2014's possibilitiesfrom this perspective: the holy is among us, humanity and divinity have melded, and each of us, just… Continue reading
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New Year’s Eve
Out with the crappy, the silly, the dumb,Out with what leaves us so distrait and numb.In with the clearer, the focused, the real,In with our opting to be and to feel. Here's to less TV, … Continue reading
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Feast of Stephen
Today, the second day of Christmas, is the Feast of Stephen,the day, you may recall, when Good King Wenceslas and his pageventured out to help a poor man, who was struggling to survivethe wind and cold of a particularly nasty winter night. When you hear or sing this… Continue reading
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O Antiphons: Emmanuel
O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel, who mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son of God appear. "It's cancer."God is with us, still. "Your services are no longer needed."God is with… Continue reading
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O Antiphons: Key of David
O come, thou Key of David, come, and open wide our heavenly home; make safe the way that leads on high, and close the path to misery. The Key is on its way;hold on a… Continue reading