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The Atlantic Monthly’s July/August edition is labeled “The Ideas Issue.” When I took the Marcus Buckingham “Strengths Finder” test, ideas and “ideation” (the process of thinking) were at the top of the list of my results. I love ideas, love to think about them, and celebrate when a supposed new one crosses my path. When …
Continue reading "The Crisis of Knowing How We Know: Introduction"
I am a father. It was hard to believe then, and it's hard to believe now. Life is a miracle. I've seen it come and go. As I once looked to my father, gone now some 23 years, my kids now look to me. They've exited the house, and it's quieter now. No more sudden …
It's a metaphor that's been around since Jonah. Writers talk about it as the state of being deep in the middle of a work as the wheels are coming off, your faith in your talent and in your ideas crashing head-on into failed structures and dead-end choices. In Do the Work, by Steven Pressfield, …
What is it about people who speak with "authority" that can be so inspirational? (Who does that make you think of?) Almost two years ago, I wrote a blog post about the metaphor of war as it related to prayer. Read it here. I questioned whether war was the best frame through which to …
The task in my writing today is nothing unusual; it is the mundane work of choosing the timing and pace by which the world I am creating in my play unfolds. When do the revelations come? What is the appropriate cost of the lies these people have told? What is the consequence of my major …
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JEFF BERRYMAN 