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  • You Never Know

    With how many peoplewill we interact today–    co-workers,    clerks,    neighbors,    homeless people–never realizingthat their sagacitycould hold the secretto our soul's satisfaction? Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Dreaming

    The Transcendentinvades my dream–bulldozes the fences,mows down the weeds,blows out the windows,reveals all,and says,"Here–here is what's real,thriving and alive in your subconscious:believe it;embrace it." And I awakentransformed. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Back to the Garden

    God sat between them on the log."And why," God asked,"did I want you ignorantof the differencebetween good and evil?" Frogs croaked in the pond. Eve thought hard:"But don't we need to know what is goodso we can do good?" Adam asked,"And… Continue reading

  • Advent 13

    All our liveswe pursue the limitless Knower,the immense Unknown,the One to whom belongsall true knowing,simply(little selves)to know that we are known. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.  Continue reading

  • Only Poetry

    Only poetry probesthe complicated inner life of God.  Only imagination reachesthe unspoken and unarticulated mystery of What's Beyond. Only the mystic enters(naked, vulnerable, purposeless)the Holy of Holies. Only artists lead usto the Center. Am I overstating?I struggle to know.  Text and… Continue reading