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Another Serenity Prayer
God, just for today,grant me freedomfrom the desire to beanywhere or anyone else. Amen. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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This Moment, Expanded
Stop focusingon what's missingfrom this moment.Focus insteadon what this momentoffers: texture color movement inspiration affection wonder stillness Your egowants to catalogwhat the moment lacks. Your soulwants to reveal the momentfor what it truly… Continue reading
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Empty
"This morning,"she said,hands wrapped for warmtharound her coffee cup,"I woke up empty." "Empty?" he asked,spoonful of All-Branhalfway to his mouth."Empty as in…how?"For him,empty could be good, like Zen: open, clear, ready.Or empty could be sad, like death: … Continue reading
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“You Are What You Love”
Rumi suggests,"You are what you love."What then are you? I am silence.I am friends.I am a photograph revealing the unexpected.I am a poem provoking discovery.I am a walk in the woods.I am music.I am wonder.I am God. Text… Continue reading
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The Light of That Star
On the night the star shined above,women and men walked below,some weighed down with wine, meat and grain,others weighed down with sorrow, fear and anger. Yet on all fell equally the star's lightand its promise. It's happening again. It's happening now.… Continue reading
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Christmas Wish #7
May Santa fill your empty sockwith what you need, not what you want. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Hanukkah Wish #5
May you love yourself…exactly as you are. Do not expect more of yourselfthan you expect of others. If you are kind to anyone this seasonlet it be you. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Flotsam
Dis-identifyfrom your thoughts.You are not the things you think. Thoughts are your mind at work– often obsessed, often distracted, often distressed, often wrong. Your thoughts are not you;they are games your mind playsto amuse itself. Let… Continue reading
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Porcelain
We have a favorite CD,titled Porcelain–fragile music,delicate, round and translucent,soothing, cooling and smooth,layered with soft colorand subtle flavors,protective and nurturing. So many nightswe float to sleep,wrapped in gentle cadence… Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. (Porcelain… Continue reading
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NYC, 4/25/12
This is New York City–the metropolis of big applesand miniscule elevators.Where every block speaks two dozen languages,and every cabbie relays stories of persecution and opportunity,where endless energy mingleswith curbsides of bagged, early-morning garbage. And it continues to spin–a perpetual motion… Continue reading