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Each child is born in truth.(It's in living we learn to lie.) What gifts do you offerto bring us backto original innocence? Share them.Share them now. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Mountaintop
When you climb to the top of a mountainand stand breathless from exertion and awe,whose voice do you hear in the wind? In that fleeting momentwhen your spirit suspends itselfjust beyond the final outcropping of rock,just outside the present,are you… Continue reading
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Rest, My Love
Rest, my love.The clouds that now confound your spiritwill drift on by midnight,and the moon's cool light shall soothe you. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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The Mystics
The mystics of all faithsunderstood (and understand)one simple truth: beyond creeds,beyond dogma,all are one,we share the same journey;we gather at the same table,we sip wine poured without restraintby the Host without favorites. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries.… Continue reading
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Dawn’s First Fingers
Dawn's first fingersreach around our neighbor's houseand stroke the graying slatsof our tool shed. A small gray catpussyfoots her wayup the naked, broken trellisto the cracked, tacked, faded gray shingles of the roof.She faces the sun,raises one paw,licks it twice,settles… Continue reading
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Sunshine and Rain
bright, clear days call me outward to run to relate to create cold, rainy days call me inward to stillness to awareness to accountability I am given sunny, celebratory daysand I am given gray, growing days I need both Text and image © 2010 by Dirk deVries. All… Continue reading