Start with a cup of coffee. Fast from coffee altogether. But pay attention, and let words mean something. To pay requires cost. Be quiet. Find the quiet in the noise. If no quiet can be found, then sleep, and dream of it. Breathe. Oxygen and its life are rarely overrated. Holding breath …
How to Follow Your Heart (given that you find it first)
If I were to ask the inhabitants of Cyberspace to advise my newly minted 21-year-old son about his adult life, one of the chief answers lobbed back would be the ubiquitous charge to "follow your heart." So, given that how-tos are all the rage among us humans (how to love, how to make money, …
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READERS WANTED: Reflections on Finding an Audience
"Does it matter if you have a large readership? Do you want more hits? If you do, then why? The answer to that question is very important." My friend Jenny always asks good questions. To have a moment of theatre, you need two things. An actor and an audience. Does it need to be a …
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Focusing Wonder, Narrowing Mystery
Help me out here. The project? Focusing my blogging, narrowing my subject matter. Answering the question: what is all this blogging about? I mean the blogging in the jeffberryman.com world. If you've been reading my work for awhile, tell me what you think I'm up to. It's not that I don't know...exactly--after all, …
The Sacred Mystery of Each
"Every person is a sacred mystery." A few years back, Ron Austin caught my attention with this little statement in a brief talk at Act One: Screenwriting for Hollywood. He was reminding us that each person has an essential beauty and mystery, and that to see each person we meet as sacrament is to heighten the …
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