After the Charleston tragedy, I posted this on Facebook: “No words for what happened in Charleston. Just no words...stunning...” I was right in one sense. It was stunning. I wrong about the other part. There are words. There must be words. In Charleston Shooting: Speaking the Unspeakable, Thinking the Unthinkable, Charles P. Pierce challenges us …
More Tetrameter Fragments
I keep experimenting. I've been posting these over at my Tumblr. Follow over there if you'd like.
Tetrameter Fragments
So I've been experimenting with various ideas about what to do with the tetrameter that I've been writing each morning for over two years. For the moment, I've decided to pull fragments out and create panels experimenting with text and texture. I've got lots to learn visually, but it feels like there's potential here. …
Why I Write
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 …
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, …
JEFF BERRYMAN 