Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
A poet, a scholar, a teacher, a wanna-be mystic--always wrestling with the temptation to run away to join an intentional community--but would it be contemplative? social justice oriented? creative? in the mountains? in the inner city?--may as well stay planted and wrestle with these tensions and contradictions here, at the edge of America.
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We are at midterm at Spartanburg Methodist College--which means it's Fall Break today and tomorrow. My spouse and I will have a day of working on different projects: he's putting polyurethane on the sanded hardwood floors in the fixer-upper house in S'burg, and I have various appointments today (dermatologist, hair,...
Yesterday, we made a quick grocery store stop on our way back from Spartanburg. At one point, I heard an announcement over the loudspeaker, so I went to the in-store Starbucks. I had heard correctly--they were giving out samples of Pumpkin Spice Latte--yum.For me, though, this season is really Pumpkin Sketching...
I met the artist Jill Ross through an online journaling group offered by artist Vonda Drees. That feels like a very different time and world, and in a way, it was, back in 2018. We were journaling our way through Joyce Rupp's Open the Door: A Journey to the True Self. I first blogged about the experience in this...
Yesterday, we had worship in the picnic pavilion at Faith Lutheran in Bristol, Tennessee. It was a bit chilly, but we continued on with worship as planned. For more on worship, I wrote this blog post, or you can go straight to the recording of the sermon.We had a potluck lunch with ice cream sundaes (Sundaes on...
It has been a good week overall, yet I still arrive at this Saturday feeling a bit fragmented. Let me capture a few fragments:--I am still trying to decide if my apple comparing review exercise in my Nonfiction Writing class was effective. In some ways, it was: we had a great conversation about the apples, but we're...
ELCA pastor Clint Schnekloth has been doing some interesting thinking and writing about housing and the Church's responsibility in this time of housing lack; this piece about the vacant (not abandoned so much as underused and underutilized) church space is his latest, and this piece has some specific examples of...
Yesterday was a lovely day to go to apple orchards and pumpkin patches. I did look for the farm I didn't buy, the farm on the way to the orchard, which I blogged about in this post yesterday. The house no longer exists, and I'm almost sure that the property has been transformed into a housing development...
Later today, I will stop by my favorite apple orchard on the way home. I will be buying apples today and then again later in October--all for the sake of writing projects for my classes. Tomorrow my Nonfiction Writing will have 3 kinds of apples, and we'll discuss the kinds of reviews we could write. Then on Friday,...
I have spent the last 10 minutes reading a Wikipedia article about Hurricane Hugo. People who dismiss Wikipedia articles probably haven't read any in the past 20 years--they can be downright scholarly. I got absorbed in various parts of the history of that storm, when all I really wanted to know is the day and time...
It has been a week-end of restocking supply shelves and catching up on maintenance tasks. Even after 2 trips to the grocery store on Friday, I woke up yesterday and realized we had forgotten to get toilet paper. So it was off to Walmart, and if I go to Walmart, why not stock up on other items, like baking...
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