The 60-Second Sabbath

reality

  • No Warranty

    I'm sorry,but who told you,life should be easy? Clearly you have not readthe instruction manual. For the first two years or soit will appear is ifit's all about you,and those around youwill allow you this illusion.But from then on,you'll be… Continue reading

  • Just off the Strip

    I walk off the Strip,carrying my camera,documenting my experience. Next time you're in Vegas,try this. Two blocks away,you'll find fenced off,walled offrubble. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Metaphor

    Sleep–sweet metaphor for death.Some saywe use our metaphorsto keep the world at bay,to dull the edge of life's cutting realities.  I saymetaphorstrips illusion from reality,revealing the Core beneath. Death is sleep,from which we awakenbeyond illusion, beyond reality. Text and image… Continue reading

  • Comrades

    Why do we fearour comradesfrom the underworld? They represent the realitythat underlies, undergirds us. If we are willing,they revealthe truth beneathour wearying effortto control, stifle, fathom,that which we fear will fracture us. Where darkness and light meet–    beneath the… 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

  • Behind and Beyond

    We say,"Don't rely on appearance alone,"because great things movebehind and beyond appearances. When you begin to peer behind and beyond,you become a priest,a theologian,a liturgist,an artist,and a poet. Be ready. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights… Continue reading

  • Peculiar Blindness

    When God repairs our visionwe're stuck with peculiar blindness:all those things with which we try to define ourselves–even faith–become invisible;we only see what matters. What is left? Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.  Continue reading

  • Remembering and Discovering at the Same Time

    I am an admirer of the poet David Whyte. Even when David speaks about poetry, it is poetry. Listen to some of the ways he describes the art of the poem: remembering and discovering at the same time a conversation… Continue reading

  • The Hoop

    Last night, sitting alone on my patio, a gigantic white hoop rolled through my back yard. It glowed with phosphorecence, like ocean breakers, and hissed faintly, like satin sliding on satin, then passed, like a ghost–through a wooden fence, a… Continue reading

  • New York City View, May, 2002

    We view the pastonly through the lens of the present.Can we trust this perspective? In the photo below,that which is modernshapes our vision of that which is oldas the sleek glass of a contemporary skyscraperreflects classic New York architecture.Only a… Continue reading