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Breakthrough
This morning, I wish I was a poet. I’m sitting in the middle of an experience that’s hard to describe, and yet, it couldn’t be simpler. To put it into words seems ridiculous. It reminds me of the day...
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Listening and the Hunger for Great Conversation
I love conversation. The exchange of experiences and ideas borders on the miraculous when you consider how specific our lives are to ourselves. How to explain this thing going on inside my head?...
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On Being Overwhelmed
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...
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Faith and Art: What is the Heart of the Matter?
What is at the heart of the conversation between art (in all its form and expression) and the faith of the Christian (in its multiple and varied flavors)? Here we go again…for more than a decade I’ve...
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On Living Longer Than Dad
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...
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Count the Beautiful Things, Part 2
I wrote a second day’s worth. It’s not poetry, really, but here it is. We could do this sort of thing everyday, and never run out of counting. Just thankful. Especially for this beautiful bunch....
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More Tetrameter Fragments
I keep experimenting. I’ve been posting these over at my Tumblr. Follow over there if you’d like.
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100 Things I Know #14 – You and I Have A “Ness”
I mean –ness as in “a suffix denoting a state or condition. An instance of this.” Darkness. Likeness. Kindness. Lightness. Flower-ness. Jeff-ness. You-ness. The particular quality of a...
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100 Things I Know #5 – Meaning Will Not Be Found. It Must Be Made.
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,...
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100 Things I Know #18 – There Is A Call in Beauty
Beauty is real. We argue over its subjectivity and objectivity, but in both concept and experience, the presence of something we call Beauty is undeniable. The experience of Beauty stirs us, speaks...
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