The 60-Second Sabbath

Dreams

  • The Juiciest Berries

    For all our strivingthe juiciest berriesremain unpicked. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading

  • Burn Hot

    "What is to give light, must endure burning," wrote Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl. Greatly humbled by the context of this quote, I none-the-less suggest that it does fit, here and now, for many of us. When we are called to… Continue reading

  • Autumn in the Garden of Eden

    As winter approaches the Garden of Eden,autumn's cleansing handstrips bare the branchesof the tree of knowledge of good and evil. What, then, is left to know? Stare up through the black, beseeching limbsto the infinity of stars beyond. Text and… Continue reading

  • Dreaming of Uncle Karl

    Many of the people in our lives (friends, parents, siblings, neighbors, co-workers), become archetypes with which we build meaning, the pantheon of our personal mythology, the gods and goddesses of our private Mt. Olympi. Nowhere is this clearer than in… Continue reading

  • Ancient Child

    Within me lives the ancient child–core, innocent, authentic, divine. He is the essential, foundational me. All the rest of me–my history, personality, web of relationships, accomplishments–is spun from and around this timeless boy. So much can accumulate that he is… Continue reading

  • Halloween: Ghosts

    The woman believes in ghosts. She believes in ghosts because, each night around two in the morning, she sees them. They enter her bedroom, and, in the dim light from the streetlamp halfway down the block, she makes out their… Continue reading

  • Dark Water at Night

    Since childhood, I've had this approach/avoidance thing with large bodies of water at night. What is clear, refreshing and welcoming in daylight becomes inky, impenetrable and mysterious after dark. Lake Michigan, the Pacific, the Atlantic, even little Green Lake in… Continue reading

  • Advice from the Future

    Back in 2004, I was given an interesting challenge, to imagine my self 10 years hence giving advice to myself in the present. What would 10-years-the wiser Dirk have to say to 51-year-old Dirk? Now I'm over half the way… Continue reading