There were hundreds of books, and as always, the stakes were high. But you can't think about it that way. Who wants to remember that every single time you read a book, you--and the world--change? Choosing a book is like choosing anything these days. There are uncountable choices, and we are given that crazy …
Counting on the Sublime
The word "sublime" came across the Facebook news feed this morning. I fell in love with "the sublime" in an old treatise, either 1st or 3rd century CE, attributed to a Greek tradition calls Longinus. On the Sublime lifted me into the ether of literary contemplation back in graduate school, and I've been on the …
Differences, INFPs, and Making Room
One of the strange things about the constant swirl of advice our consumer culture (and I include preaching as part of that because "consumer culture" refers to the mindset of the audience) is that it almost always sounds as if it's meant for everyone. And from inside our own heads, that seems sort of right, …
Going to the End
Run past the finish line, I was told. Endings are better than beginnings, a wise man said. Finish well, the old saying goes. Problem is, beginnings come much easier to me. Maybe to all of us. When watching actors audition, there is a moment I wait for, look for, anticipate with great hope. It's the …
Learning to Work on Your Work
So I went from full time to half time to all-the-time. From lots of people everyday to hardly any people any day. From interactions with people focused primarily on what some would call "spirituality" to interactions based on whatever happens to be flying around the human experience at the moment. From intense Biblical …
JEFF BERRYMAN 