It's just a list, really, an off the cuff exercise from a few days ago. Seemed like a good thing to share on a Thanksgiving Day. May there be too many beautiful things (read "moments") in your day to count... And I should say...this girl is the first of my list, always... (I …
THE BATTING CAGE: One Story, Two Perspectives
Here's an interesting thing, a chance to get the same father-son story from the perspective of two writers. Daniel, my son, had an interesting (not exactly tragic, but close) baseball experience when he was little, and later that night, after it happened, I sat and wrote the whole thing down, so I wouldn't forget. …
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Spinning…
Truth is…I’m spinning. Anybody else spinning with me? It’s hard to be honest about that spinning, because frankly, life works better when spinning is at a minimum, and balance reigns. What do I mean by spinning? I mean this: to sit at my computer (surrounded by an office of books on Christian faith, creativity, writing, …
It’s Already Been Done: A Particular Lie
At any given moment, there are millions of artists and craftspeople working around the world, making things that may or may not have any pragmatic use (depending on how you define pragmatics), and for most of human history, those artists worked in small corners, unnoticed except by the few. Not so today, thankfully. An explosion …
Poetry Tuesday: We Need, We Men and Women, Wanting Much
WE NEED, WE MEN AND WOMEN, WANTING MUCH We need, we men and women, wanting much; A breakfast bun, a hand nearby, a breath, And quicker answers to the mad questions Buzzing our quiet times, distracting us. From nothing we came, but what does that tell us? What nothing is nothing, what kind of nothing …
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JEFF BERRYMAN 