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Because Things Do
Things fall apart then reassemble.Life unravels then weaves back together.The water overwhelms then recedes. This is always the pattern; we've lived it 1,000 times, survived it 1,000 times. Yet always between the disaster … Continue reading
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Father’s Day, 2012
June 16, 2012.It's Father's Day.It is also,here in Denver,Gay Pride Day. There is a juxtaposition herethat's challenging for me to resolve. Dad died in 2001.Had he accompanied me todayas I took photos of a worldcompletely outside of his experience–a mash-up… Continue reading
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Water of Life
follow with methis rainbow that leadsto the mountain of dreams worth the schlep at the end of that arcwaits a swimming hole;we bathe therein the holy water of life that for which you thirst…eternally quenched Text and image © 2012… Continue reading
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Pridefest 3
If I am not being authentic,not speaking my mind,voicing my opinion,being fully, absolutely myself,then I am denyingwho and what God embodied me to be. Hesitating,hiding,holding back,harbors death. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Tired
He speaks of tiredness–the weariness of the one long oppressed,whose limits have been reached,ready to snap,left with one resource–retaliation. He speaks of tiredness–the weariness of one so tightly rightthat any lapse of strengthis to admit incorrectness and failed idealism–implosion. He speaks… Continue reading