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Fashion Week
Along the spare runwayskinny, slack-faced models slouch,whose bodies movebut faces do not. When did the lack of feelingbecome sexy? When did boredom(or is it death)become beauty? Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. 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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Christmas, Day 5
Merry Christmas to you, my tiny new one.Did you know that God also got him a son? His name is Jesus, who humbly was borna long time ago on a bright winter mornin a land far away in a town near… Continue reading
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The Face
I cradle my brand-new grand niece,fresh from the other side,and look into her wide-open, unfocused brown eyes.Why would she so soon focus on earthly thingswhen she's just come from the Infinite,just looked eye-to-eye into the great and open Origin? At… Continue reading
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On the Sixth Day of Christmas
If he's just arrived,isn't this when he needs us most–this neonate, this babe,so fragile, so absolutely dependent? Shouldn't we get the place ready,clean things up a bit,replace alienation with reconciliation,suspicion with trust,and greed with grace? He came in 2009,and we… Continue reading
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Compassion for Myself
I need to feel and express compassion for othersbut also compassion for myself expansive loving nonjudgmental listening open-hearted forgiving free-ranging compassion Acceptance (as is)of weaknesses and failings because all is well and all is well and all manner of things… Continue reading