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This morning, I'm not writing about what I said I was going to write about. Instead, I offer you, hot off the presses of my experience, a case study...an experience in knowing. Years ago, I was tasked with writing a personal credo, and it began with the words, "We are not alone." And yet, loneliness …
Continue reading "God Spoke to Me: The Crisis of Knowing How We Know – 3"
When healing happens, what (or who) exactly, is in charge of the healing? Years ago, in Bill Moyers' 1993 publication Healing and the Mind, I came across an interview with Dr. Candace Pert in which she makes a stunning claim. She told Moyers that in multiple personality disorders, it could be shown that within the same …
Continue reading "Placebos and Shams: The Crisis of Knowing How We Know – 2"
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 …
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 …
Continue reading "Doing Right By The Work: Choosing This Day"
My friend and I were talking this morning, and she mentioned a quote from Jane Austen that said something about a marriage not lasting because of passion outstripping virtue. I looked online and here's the quote I think she was referring to. I found it over at Jane Austen's Quote of the Day. …
JEFF BERRYMAN 