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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It is the morning after a historic election day with not much time to write. Here's the Facebook post I made just after midnight: I fell asleep early-ish for an election night (by 9 p.m.), early-ish for most grown ups on any night, and scrolling through results at midnight, I'm struck by how many of the winners are...
Today is the Feast of All Souls. You might be confused--didn't we just celebrate this holiday yesterday?No, that was All Saints. All Saints was originally designed to honor the saints, those who had been beatified. Official saints, canonized by the Pope.All Souls Day, celebrated the day after All Saints, was...
If you came here thinking you would get a post about all the trick-or-treaters that came to our house, that is not the neighborhood we live in now. Will our fixer-upper house have more trick-or-treaters? Perhaps we will see in the coming years; last night we were in Arden, NC.Our NC neighborhood has maybe 2 or 3...
At the end of September, as I looked at the late October events, I decided that I would like a witch hat. I briefly thought of making one, even looking up patterns. But I found this hat for less than ten dollars, I decided not to spend time sewing.I wore it Tuesday, which I wrote about in this blog post, and I wore...
Yesterday we stopped at Coston's Orchard, my favorite orchard, to get some more apples for teaching. Earlier this term, I got apples for my Nonfiction Writing class--it was a great way to have students write reviews--reviewing 3 different varietals of apples. Today I'll take apples to my Composition class.Yesterday...
I am sure I will remember some of the bigger joys of October, like the Trail of Treats event on Tuesday night, the onground intensive in mid-October, the Crumley archives banquet, and a breakfast reunion with my mom's Lexington cousins. Let me record some smaller joys that might be forgotten.--My wrenched knee has...
When we bought this fixer-upper house in Spartanburg back in early May, we thought we would spend the summer renovating it and move a truck load of belongings down here to be ready for a fall semester with less commuting back and forth to Arden. It's been a slower remodel than we expected.Last night was our first...
Last night was a perfect night for an outdoor gathering at one of our local breweries, Appalachian Mountain Brewery in Mills River. We were there a month ago, and half of us spent a good part of the night squinting into the setting sun. Last night, we sat at a different table and didn't have that problem.We chose...
Here we are, the last week of October, which down here in the Carolina's should be beautiful. For me, it will be a week of 2 Halloween events at work, which makes me so very happy. There will be a neighborhood gathering at a local brewery. Of course, there will be much more mundane events. On Wednesday, we find out...
We have been to several autumn festivals at Faith Lutheran church, but yesterday was the first time I've taken part in the hayride. Last night, as the full moon rose, and just before the sun sank at the horizon, a tractor pulled a low flatbed with hay bales around the back field of the church. It was gorgeous, and I...
Later today, we'll get in the car and head the other direction on I 26, up to Bristol. You might say, "Wait, it's not Sunday." No, it's not, but because today is Faith Lutheran's Chili Fest, we're going up today and spending the night in a hotel. It's been a month of a lot of travel for me, and today is the last...
It has been a busy few days, especially yesterday, but happily, we've gotten some important tasks done. We should have a tech arriving at our fixer-upper house in Spartanburg to get our internet set up--which meant we spent an hour yesterday finding the Spectrum sales store, waiting for 10 minutes, and then going...
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