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Tomorrow/Today
We dream of lovely tomorrows,but if all we do is dream of them,we never receive them. Now is the time to create those tomorrows. Tomorrow is today. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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It’s Over
"Put the tinsel down,"she said. "But…but, I'm not ready,"I protested. "We have to put this stuff away.We've talked about this." "But why?Why do we have to put it away?Why not leave it up all year?" "Because if it were up… Continue reading
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Blink
Aging,we realize that we are any given agefor only a moment. So quickly it passes–all passes. At this end of the journeywe become observers(like God,outside the stream of time,watching time's flightlike a single turning of the clock): a… Continue reading
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Lacking Scarcity
There isenough. I amenough. I live as ifthere isn't enough: not enough time, not enough money, not enough sleep, not enough room, not enough accomplished… But there is alwaysenough. And I am alwaysenough. Text and… Continue reading
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The Mystery of Our Faith
Christ has died. I am lost in memory, in the traditions of my family and faith, in a past that both comforts and cuts, that hounds and heals. But the past is necessarily … Continue reading
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Mom’s Birthday, February 28, 2013
She would have turned 93,were she alive. Is it okay to say,"Today my mother turns 93,"or can one no longer say this,when the body is gone?In such cases,there is nothing to turn 93.A buried box of ashes?Even that likely no… Continue reading
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Changing the World
Will my photographschange the world? Yes,if just one imagemoves a single heartcloser to beauty,thoughtfulnessor wonder. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Time
Time to write. Time for silence. Time to let God speak. Time to know who I am. Time to be grateful. Time to be human. I have all the time. I not only have the time, I have all the… Continue reading
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The Steady
There are waysto be renewedby the ancient:stand silent and mindful in a rank of redwood minarets, beneath a sequined Montana night, at the apex of a Mayan pyramid, on the unsteady edge of an ocean's immensity, … Continue reading
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And God Created Rest
One Jewish traditionsuggests that God,on the seventh day,didn't collapse of exhaustionand say, "That's it;six days and I need a break,"but rather,on the seventh day,still generative, still spinning forth,created tranquility, serenity, peace and repose. Having finished with spaceGod turned God's attention… Continue reading