cobbling together the artist's life…coaching, acting, photography, writing, and music…
So I went outside for a couple of days, attacking a weed-infested garden tract in my backyard, and allergies rose up and hammered me toward a sinus infection, which I'm currently refusing to bow to. Perhaps it's an appropriate penance for the sin of neglecting this nice little piece of ground that could be used …
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Just as an experiment in putting words out into the universe, during June I blogged every day. That's 30 straight days, at least 400 words, most often more like 800. That's between 12,000 and 24,000 words, the equivalent of a small (very small) book. June was remembering how different we all are, the war that …
In what sense is art-making service? If you give a person a drink of water, when they ingest it, there are immediate, real-world results. If you offer a hungry person bread, when they eat it, their bodies replenish and become better able to negotiate their day's tasks and responsibilities. If you offer a coat to …
Dear God, You make, I make. You make me to make. What am I to make today? What are You making today, and what is the plan for how our making? In every small corner of every large nation, human beings are setting out to take disparate materials and fashion them into a piece …
Life is hard. There are winners and losers in real time. When competing for jobs, someone doesn't get hired. When applying for colleges and grad schools, someone doesn't get in. When vying for federal funding, someone loses out. When applying for mortgage loans, somebody doesn't qualify. When plays get submitted to theatres, some are produced, …
Continue reading "Choosing Knowledge: The Crisis of Knowing How We Know – 4"
JEFF BERRYMAN 