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Scanning
Charmed childgrowing up on a Michigan beach,I stand on wind-built dunesand scan for whales, for Russian subs, for drowning victims… for an adventure and an extrordinary life. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Maundy Thursday, 2013
She huddles on the shore,feet buried in moist sand,cold to the bone, but rooted. The waves pull at each other,slide up and over rocks,recoil and echo,slosh and hiss. She feels awash and adrift,tasting a salt seabroader and deeperthan human need. … Continue reading
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Job II
And what would you have said?"Life sucks"?"There is no answer"?"God is capricious and uncaring"?"God? What God?""Try meth instead"? I would have sat beside himand wept. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading