The preacher said a couple of weeks ago that the sea has always been a symbol of chaos. Last night, I went surfing. Not just for the fun of it. It's time for the annual ramp up toward my January class, that audacious thing having to do with a "Christian Aesthetic", whatever that might …
On Contentment
We churn. Yesterday, fueled by a morning conversation about commitment (or lack thereof), challenged by an evening swimming with foolish old thoughts of might-have-beens, I churned. Possible pasts rose up and whacked me in that misty, far-too guilty place, the old smirking internal attorney offering lots of proof of dumb faithlessness and that sorry bug-a-boo …
Words Like Leaves
Three hours of color. I left the house about 11:00, restless, with no appointments for the day until 7:00 p.m., at which time I'd head up to UW to shoot a couple of short scenes for a film being produced by a friend of a friend. I get nervous about such things, so I needed …
Everything’s A Photo Waiting To Be Taken…
So I got an invitation from my daughter to do a "365" project. What's that, I said? Well, it's an online project where you post a photograph a day, joining a community of pretty talented (make that "really, amazingly talented") photographers just practicing the craft, having a great time blowing each others' minds with these …
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Thoughtful Creatives, Resonance, and Hospitality
This past weekend was a game-changer. At the end of a pretty bumpy road just outside of Cle Elum sits a place called Chalet Talley, and there I spent a couple of days in the company of dear friends I'd never met before. It began with a ninety minute ride from Seattle with a …
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JEFF BERRYMAN 