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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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...
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...
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