Last night, my mom reminded me...nineteen years ago today, my father died. My sister called me that afternoon (or was it morning), a call that was not unexpected, seeing as how I'd said my good-byes to him a couple of weeks earlier. Jimmy Joe Berryman (1934-1988) suffered from leukemia, and I'd been called to Texas …
Ponette
The house was quiet, the work of the week was done, and Sabbath lay just ahead. After days of beautiful, hot weather, outdoors turned blustery, rain occasionally beating on the south-facing window of my office. I wandered downstairs, wondering when I might get started on a much needed work-out regimen to get a little extra …
The Subtle Knife
I didn't laugh as much as I plowed through this one. I mentioned that I laughed a bit during The Golden Compass because it was so obvious what Philip Pullman was up to according to quantum physics and the psychology of Jung, James Hillman and Thomas Moore. In The Subtle Knife, Pullman gains steam and …
Sabbath Practice
I've been selling people on this idea of Sabbath, lately, having just experienced yet another day of stoppage from the rat race. Last night, a friend of mine asked me what I was did on Sabbath, what the experience looked like. Truth to tell, I'm just feeling my way along based on a couple of …
The Golden Compass
When Amy and I went to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last week, there as a very cool trailer for a movie coming out in December called The Golden Compass. Based on a book by Philip Pullman, this is a story that has been on the edges of my radar for …
JEFF BERRYMAN 