Dan Steeves

 Flags, Fences and other Markers 

"People build homes, after all, to keep the outside out. Houses are stories, lies perhaps, that we tell ourselves about our safety, about our ability to determine our own fate, about 'us' and 'them'."
—Andrew Steeves, Gaspereau Press





Wrapped in something so much bigger



A healing place



A kind of awe and reverance and wonder



A remarkable experience of grace



Again, a pure gift of grace



All of us are sailors adrift on it's ancient swell



Free to ignore moments of restlessness in the mind



I feel the infusion of hope and peace



I find my own place in these deep rhythms



It offered a more guarded and controllable sort of life



Some kind of honest rendering of the stuff of our lives (left)



Some kind of honest rendering of the stuff of our lives (right)



Some kind of honest rendering of the stuff of our lives (middle)



The fact is we had little idea of what we were getting into



The richness of the silence



The wishful thoughts come



There are no tidy conclusions or resolutions



These are significant graces



We know we've been given an incredible gift



When we're called to share not common pleasures by pain



Who will guard the door when I am sleeping?