Photography
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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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Winter Train Passing
with a click, click, clackon the cold, steel track,the old train chugsthe engine lugsreluctant carsbeneath icy starson a cold, cold nightwhile a single lightcuts the snow that fallsas the whistle callsto the track, to the carsto the hard, white starswhile… Continue reading
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Absent Wonder
I wandered through woods, towering stands of oak and beech,clamoured over endless swells of golden dunes,scrambled up and slid down slopes of sun-warmed sand. I marvelled at the perfect circles drawn by blades of restless beach grass,like the… Continue reading
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Scorecard
God does not keep score. Why do we? Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Twelfth Night
Now it is Twelfth Night.Beyond the windows,snow falls and darkness encroaches,but the lights of our treebeckon with welcome, joy and hope. Tonight we say farewell to Christmas;tomorrow Epiphany dawns. This year, what has Christmas taught you? Text and image © 2013… Continue reading
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A Limerick for Christmas (Day 10)
There was a wee infant so coldAttended by ordure and gold, A paradox stabled, Our God somehow cradled.We've never seen helpless so bold. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. 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 Day
On this, the eighth day of Christmas,I remind us of what author Taylor Caldwell said: This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. May you know this deeply, trulyin the final days of the season. Text and… 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