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 …
Moods
Mine's on the upswing. Been up since 3:30 a.m. Ran the In-Laws to the airport for a trip to my nephew's educated exit from higher ed. (Read graduation.) Went back to bed for an hour, listening to random music on my iPhone, much of which I hardly knew was on it. Decided my first tweet …
Taking Transformation
After over a decade of teaching an Arts and Culture class at Abilene Christian University, you'd think I'd have it figured out by now. Truth is, I'm in my annual panic. It's a bit of ritual, to emerge from the daily privilege of family, work, and more work, to raise my head and try to …
Walking the Earth
Barbara Brown Taylor, in An Altar in the World, advocates walking as spiritual practice. She doesn't mean walking and praying as you go. She means walking and being quiet, paying attention. Some leaves hang on to the tree, curling up in a tight cylinder. Others die in tire tracks, leaving the ice in the rut …
Bearing Witness
I think that I am here, on this earth, To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place Has meaning because it changes into memory. From "Consciousness" -- Czeslaw Milosz To whom do we tell what happened on the earth, for whom …
JEFF BERRYMAN 