cobbling together the artist's life…coaching, acting, photography, writing, and music…
I mean –ness as in “a suffix denoting a state or condition. An instance of this.” Darkness. Likeness. Kindness. Lightness. Flower-ness. Jeff-ness. You-ness. The particular quality of a thing or person. This is my way of saying each of us has been crafted uniquely. Our particular mixture of DNA, circumstance and environment, cultural expression, personality …
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Read the post first, then click the image and listen to the song. It will make more sense... Listening to God is a strange idea. Seven billion people on the planet, all of them living and dying with needs, cries, joys, dances, and wars full of cruelties worthy of front page banner headlines. We …
Someone asked me yesterday just how big this "puzzle" I keep referring to is. First step, coffee, then working out. Frankly, it’s a big puzzle, a thousand pieces maybe, and maybe I don’t know what the picture is I’m trying to put together. But it has something to do with wholeness, with well being, …
Why do I write? Popular wisdom says to “start with the end in mind.” So often, I write without much of an end in mind at all. I start from where I am, the movement of forces inside me, and work out from there. Usually, it begins with a scan of attention across my inner …
I wrote a second day's worth. It's not poetry, really, but here it is. We could do this sort of thing everyday, and never run out of counting. Just thankful. Especially for this beautiful bunch. Not together this year for Thanksgiving, but they'll always be with me, whichever holiday table finds …
JEFF BERRYMAN 