So my coffee-shop pediatrician friend pulls up a chair and begins to tell me again of Oliver Sack's new brain book called Migraine. Turns out it's not a new book, but still. Then she refers me back to an old book on my shelf called Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert. Neurons in the gut …
On Contentment
We churn. Yesterday, fueled by a morning conversation about commitment (or lack thereof), challenged by an evening swimming with foolish old thoughts of might-have-beens, I churned. Possible pasts rose up and whacked me in that misty, far-too guilty place, the old smirking internal attorney offering lots of proof of dumb faithlessness and that sorry bug-a-boo …
Thoughtful Creatives, Resonance, and Hospitality
This past weekend was a game-changer. At the end of a pretty bumpy road just outside of Cle Elum sits a place called Chalet Talley, and there I spent a couple of days in the company of dear friends I'd never met before. It began with a ninety minute ride from Seattle with a …
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A Call for Syllabus Ideas
The title of the university class is this: The Arts and Culture: A Christian Aesthetic. It’s in January, is one week long, 8-5 for five days straight, beginning Monday, and there’s a two-three hour final on Friday afternoon. I’ve been teaching this class for ten years, a couple of years on my own, and the …
Reflections on Daniel Pink’s “Drive”
What makes us do what we do? What are the deeper motivations that keep us engaged in our life and work? Under what conditions do we learn, perform, and live at the highest levels of engagement and what some call "flow?" Daniel Pink, in Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, has whacked me …
JEFF BERRYMAN 