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  • Releasing

    So many questions,so few answers,so little needto stress about either. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Small and Cool

    The sanctuary,baked by the low, western sun,swelters. But meditation stills the body,and a stilled body cools–cools as the need to do evaporates,cools as only being is required. Cools.Stillness cools me.Coolness spreads to/from those around me,those who, like me,release into less.… Continue reading

  • Bast

    As my cat twists to groom himselfhe's backlit by the setting rays of Ra,the aura of his black fur turned to bronze–Bast bathing on a carpet of golden thread. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.  Continue reading

  • Summer in the Desert of Solitude

    It's summer in the desert of solitude:    naked sky,    scouring wind,    relentless sun.My pores open;Truth drips like sweat. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading

  • Standing in the Pines

    I stand in the pinesa worshipper–sun-warmed needles my incense,hum of wind my hymn.I close my eyes on the past. I stand endlessly in the pines. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading