winter
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Photography 3
Today,let a good photobe your textfor prayer. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Winter Meal
Beyond these windows,just two feet from me,the temperature is five below. Incidental flakes sift downunenthusiastically;this meager snow's merely the side dish,lightly tossed. The cold's the main thing,the entree:a big slab of frigid, served raw,biting back. And for dessert?A slice of… Continue reading
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Winter Train Passing
with a click, click, clackon the cold, steel track,the old train chugsthe engine lugsreluctant carsbeneath icy starson a cold, cold nightwhile a single lightcuts the snow that fallsas the whistle callsto the track, to the carsto the hard, white starswhile… Continue reading
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Feast of Stephen
Today, the second day of Christmas, is the Feast of Stephen,the day, you may recall, when Good King Wenceslas and his pageventured out to help a poor man, who was struggling to survivethe wind and cold of a particularly nasty winter night. When you hear or sing this… Continue reading
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Haiku
words like winter windspirit-piercing shards of icearrows to the heart Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Winter Moon
Jet-black branchesframe a round, cream moon,soon to set. Earlierwhen I first shuffled into the kitchen– to feed the cats, to start the coffee–the moon rode above the trees,a perfect circle of frozen white. It shifts coloras it nears… Continue reading
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Snow, Glorious Snow!
It's snowing here in Denver. Those of you elsewhere in the country may not realize how unusual this is. It's been a very dry winter. Today we are finally having our first significant snowfall of the season, and long overdue. Longtime… Continue reading
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Hiking with Death
Climbing the trail,I'm joined by a young woman. We chat,observing the shift toward winter,the changing colors,the increasing coolness,how this path of gravelwill soon be packed with snow,rutted by cross-country skis,pocked with snow-shoe tracks. "Your name?" I ask. "My friends call… Continue reading
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A Life of Meaning
If you want that life–that life of meaning,that life of union with the divine,that life of satisfaction, devotion, wholeness,that life of true and constant perspective–then pursue it full-heartedly. Don't go about it half-assed.It's all or nothing. Text and image © 2013… Continue reading
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What Waits Within
The blooming roselives within the bud,the blood-red tulipwithin the dormant bulb,the canopy of sheltering leaveswithin the bare branch braced against the raw winter wind. What then waitswithin you? Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading