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My small film group watched Run, Lola, Run last night, a 1998 German film in which a young woman receives a desperate phone call from her boyfriend. He has lost 100,000 Deutsche Mark, and unless he can deliver this enormous amount of cash to his drug-dealing boss within 20 minutes, he will most likely be …
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It's a pause in a line of verse or meter. It implies, and most frequently, demands, a breath. It's an between-moment, a brief stop in a journey. So I'm trying to catch the breath offering itself in this particular ceasura. 2010 holds new promise, new possibilities. The season of full-time ministry is waning, though not …
I missed lighting the candle on Sunday. I know...we of evangelical ilk (I originally had "elk" - ha!) don't always do such things, but the Episcopalian side of me really likes to light the light. November was a busy season with a couple of events at church, not to mention all the planning related to …
October 27, 1977. Abilene, Texas. Mid-afternoon, I get a call from my sister who is working for a local radio station. She's got two extra tickets for the Doobie Brothers concert at Taylor County Coliseum that night. Would I like them? Sure, I say, sounds fun. The girl I was semi-dating at the time was …
Friday morning, as I stood with Scott and Pam Nolte in the Gordito's parking lot watching water cascading into the lobby of Taproot Theatre, one thing was very clear: there would be no performance of Enchanted April that night. There would be a mountain of work, sorting everything out, getting the theatre back on its …
JEFF BERRYMAN 