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... …
Acting 101: For All of Us
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 …
Birthday Season
Birthdays glow. It's silly, really. Of course we had to get here through the passage of a particular day in time, at a particular moment. For me it was 9:20 a.m. in a Lubbock hospital back in 1959, born to a young couple with a daughter and an uncertain future. A half-century and more …
Thriving and the Now Factor
I was thinking about "thriving" on my way home from the gym yesterday, wondering about how to even begin talking about it. What in the world is thriving? The dictionary says this: "to grow or develop well or vigorously." That resonates, mostly because of my recent adaptation of the word "grow", exchanging it …
Thriving: A Good Hub of a Word
Themes for the New Year abound. Commitment, focus, discipline, simplicity, gratitude, service...there are many ways to frame a reorientation of living. Here's the one I've settled on as a hub for the work of my various writing platforms. Thrive. Funny word, thrive. Makes me think of "hive." Which leads me to images of buzzing …
JEFF BERRYMAN 