My skin temperature seems a little high, just a bit hotter than usual. My microwaved coffee may be the cause. Since my espresso machine died, I've been going through regular pots. Regular coffee affects me differently than espresso shots. Maybe that's why I'm sweating a bit. Or maybe it's hot in my office because the …
Regret Over Missed Colleagues
I was thinking about Arthur Koestler’s work today, The Act of Creation. The Act of Creation was the major text in my Directing Seminar 681 (I think that was the number) back in graduate school. Then I thought of my very smart postmodern professor from back then, and googled his name. Then another name came …
Meaning: Find It? Make It?
Eric Maisel, in his book Coaching the Artist Within, declares that one of the primary skills in living successfully is to “passionately make meaning.” I’ve read a couple of Maisel’s books. Maisel’s a family therapist and creativity coach, with a Phd in psychology. He may not believe in God, but he’s a good writer, and …
Making Worlds
We encounter the world through our senses. Light hits the eye’s photoreceptors and the optical information starts its split-second journey toward the visual cortex in the occipital lobe, then on to the frontal cortex, and perception begins. Same with sound, smell, taste, and touch; the various systems involved in each leap into action as stimuli …
Vacation Adventures
So there I am, standing at the railing of a catamaran, bobbing up and down in the Pacific Ocean at the base of the great, plunging cliffs of the NaPali Coast on the north shores of Kauai. The morning sun has just crested over the top of these mountains, and the sea mists have caught …
JEFF BERRYMAN 