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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Today is the 226th anniversary of Oktoberfest, a holiday which began as a city-wide celebration of the marriage of a royal couple. Raise a glass! I wish I liked beer more.In an interesting juxtaposition of holidays, today is also the real Columbus Day and also the federal holiday. Oktoberfest and Christopher...
I am sitting at a desk in the Drury Hotel in Carmel, Indiana, on the northern edge of Indianapolis. I'm here for an onground intensive for the TEEM program, my current route to ordination. If you've been following along all week, you know that I'm here a day early.It's a long trip, which I make by car. I like being...
Last June, when I left Indiana after the first TEEM onground intensive that I attended, I thought ahead to our next gathering in October, where I anticipated autumnal shifts with still-warm days.I did not anticipate a hurricane affecting the weather that far inland. But here we are. I've changed travel plans, and...
I am hurricane watching, and you might ask why. I will always keep a wary eye on any Gulf or Atlantic hurricanes--even before Hurricane Helene came to my neighborhood, I was this way. This week-end, I'm headed to Indianapolis, and Hurricane Isaias is too. I was going to drive on Sunday, but since the hotel could add...
On Sunday, I went through my old files looking for a St. Francis poem that I thought I had written--but I was thinking of an Ash Wednesday poem. While searching, I found an old manuscript of Jesus in the world poems, many of which I had forgotten writing. Because my time is short this morning, I'll post one of them...
Yesterday was an afternoon of purchases and vaccinations. My witch hat (with a veil!) was the most fun:My school will have a week of various Halloween activities in late October, and I had been thinking about a witch hat, the easiest costume. I thought about making one--after all, I have a lot of fabric. But after...
I have had a good week-end, good in ways both expected and unexpected. I began the week-end by driving down to Columbia, SC to meet up with my parents so we could go to the James R. Crumley Archive banquet together. In past years, I had seen people post pictures of the banquet, and I always thought it sounded...
Today is the feast day of Saint Francis. For those of you who want a more spiritual meditation, head to these posts on my theology blog, one without photos, and one with photos. For those of you wondering why we should care about a medieval saint or for those of you wanting to celebrate his life with your...
Yesterday I drove down to Columbia, SC to meet my parents so that we could all go to the James R. Crumley Archives banquet. In years past, I've seen pictures of the event, and I've always been curious. This year, schedules aligned, and we could go.Each year, as far as I can tell, the banquet is held at a different...
I spent much of yesterday attending to tasks that I often don't find time for during regular school days: a dermatologist appointment, some grocery shopping, and a hair cut. But I also did some fun activities. Last year, I went to Asheville Cotton, one of our local fabric stores, on the first day of Fall Break. This...
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...
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