On Monday night, October 15th, looks like I'll be sitting in on a panel discussion of "The Artist's Life" at The Kindling's Muse @ Hale's Ales Brewery and Pub (4301 Leary Way NW -- at the center of the universe in Seattle’s Fremont District.) If you don't know about The Kindling's Muse, it's an attempt …
The Integrity of Calvin And Hobbes
Came across an article (What You Can Learn From Calvin and Hobbes About the Medium and the Message, by Fred Hunt) a few minutes ago that's worth reading. Bill Watterson's refusal to cave in to the millions offered him for the commercialization of his characters Calvin and Hobbes is a rare witness to integrity. The …
Prayer Journals
Several years ago, a man named Dean Trune came and preached to the Northwest Church about prayer. Trune is passionate about journaling prayer, mostly so you can look back and see what's happening and what isn't. His system is pretty extensive, and frankly, I tried to do it for a few days, and it was …
Communication has changed. It's hard to grasp the significance of the changes. Did anything essential change when the telegraph and telephone first came into use? Neil Postman thought so, complaining that the telegraph gave us new information, but that it also laced that information with irrelevance. It seems obvious that new information that comes from …
October Blogging
The Engineered Air Theatre at Epcor Center in Calgary, Alberta. The bored guy sat in the second row in the middle. When I was in my twenties, a friend of mine, a singer-songwriter who now lives in Nashville (I think - it's been years since I last talked to him), encouraged me to find …
JEFF BERRYMAN 