cobbling together the artist's life…coaching, acting, photography, writing, and music…
Let me say it again, just to be clear. I know that I don't know what it means to be black in America. That’s an awkward way to say it. Here's what I mean. § I am white, and I am privileged. And for most of my adult life, that privilege was invisible …
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Though we stumble upon moments when our lives cohere and suddenly all the our experiences make sense, and these moments often feel as if we’ve discovered an empirical reality that was there all along, the truth is that these moments are moments of our own story-telling, moments we have made. There are facts, and then …
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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 …
Poetry Tuesday...I've told a few people how I've been throwing down lines of tetrameter since Ash Wednesday. What if Tuesdays here became "Poetry Tuesday"? No comment, just some lines for the perusal of whoever wants to wander by? Sure, why not? The following was my entry from about three weeks ago. Enjoy... …
Here’s what actors do, in one way or another. Imaginatively, they work to enter the experience of a person, a character, imagining circumstances, beliefs, thought-life, sensory preferences, histories of relationships, and perhaps most importantly, what their particular characters are hungry for, long for, and have been living without. They then shift their physical and emotional …
JEFF BERRYMAN 