I don't like politics. Men and women struggling over power, wealth, and good. Forces of human action contending valiantly and corruptly, if need be, to control, coerce, or more nobly, to free. Senators beaten with canes in full view (see pre-Civil War politics), Congresswomen shot at close range in grocery store parking lots, and …
Learning to Work on Your Work
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 …
Soul Enlarging Songs
So what is a song? What's it's for? What is it about a particular marriage of lyric and rhythm and melody that makes a spirit rise from the dead, as it were, and find new energy for the day. When I was in high school, I listened to Janis Ian's famous album that contained "At …
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 …
I Need Words
Tonight, some words. The dryer's running, and it's hot in my office. How the rain outside asserts itself into my space is hard to say, but it does. I like rain, but I'm tired of it. "No grumbling," God's word says, but grumbles pour in and out of my head before I hardly know they're …
JEFF BERRYMAN 