cobbling together the artist's life…coaching, acting, photography, writing, and music…
My reading in the Bible’s Psalms this morning contained passages in which the writer described our lives as smoke, and, whether rich or poor, our years as a breath. Believer and atheist alike can accept this as ancient wisdom, an exercise in perspective. Our experience sets us in the middle of things, as if we …
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Reality, some say, is constructed. Others claim things are there regardless of our perceptions. It’s both. Consider the recent Jupiter-Venus conjunction. Our perception on recent nights is that Jupiter and Venus appear to be very close together, with Venus obviously being the brighter, and thus the larger, planet. Here from one of NASA's blogs is …
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Music moves us, those sounds of hammers striking strings, voices singing words or scatting, mallets pounding taut skins. We are attuned to shapes of time and space sculpted by musicians, the moment-to-moment shimmerings of sound that make our hips, knees, and arms want to undulate. Music is everywhere, is personal, is communal, is magic. Maybe …
I have now lived ten days longer than my father. As we flew to Hawaii on Friday, April 12, I was thoughtful of another date: July 23, 1988, was Jimmy Joe Berryman’s 19,707th day, and his last. April 12, 2013 was Jeffrey William Berryman’s 19,707th day. All that day, I reflected on the fact …
I haven’t been blogging because I haven’t known what to say. I still don’t. There are multiple conversations in culture that demand attention (just cruise your Flipboard for awhile), and to most of them, I simply say this: I don’t know the answers to the questions we’re facing. But not long ago, I read a …
JEFF BERRYMAN 