Rolled out of bed Tuesday at 5:15 a.m. This morning it was 6:15. Both mornings I lay in bed thinking, "Am I really going to get up and go do this?" A couple of months ago, the Berrymans signed up for some treadmill, elliptical, and weight machine time, and though so far it's been an …
Sensations, Events
Logging back through the past week or so: a friend of mine came into my office yesterday celebrating a one-year anniversary free from crack-cocaine. Needless to say, hugs and laughs all around. On Sunday at the church picnic, I leapt into a sack race and allowed my competitive streak to push me beyond common sense …
Richness
Finally, summer comes to Seattle. This morning is clear sky, cool breeze perfect. I woke not to an alarm, but because my eyes opened. I dreamed of wandering old streets in a town that was my hometown, but that wasn't anywhere I'd lived before. I caught a bus, and when I got off, I'd left …
On Directing
Tomorrow I head to Chicago to teach some theatre classes at the Willow Creek Arts Conference. The one I've been working on this morning relates to directing, and I am always surprised at the stirrings that happen in me as I consider this kind of work. I am reminded again of how much I love …
A Very Large World…
There is a danger in thinking across disciplines. My thoughts range through various subjects from neuroscience to epistemology to art to physics to religion and hermeneutics. Granted, my thinking is more limited in some areas, but my curiosity just keeps churning. I am fascinated by the vastness of life, and the way each human being …
JEFF BERRYMAN 