Kristin Berkey-Abbott

Friday, June 6, 2014

Normandy, 70 years later

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Last night as I ate a wonderful dinner on my beautiful refuge of a front porch, I thought of those English and U.S. soldiers who would have ...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

Swirls of Old Language and New Technology

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--The last Navajo Code Talker has died.  You may or may not remember the history of the nearly unbreakable codes developed by World War II ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Art as Transformation: Light and Glass

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Today I'm thinking about light and how we receive it.  I'm thinking about stained glass windows and other kinds of sun catchers. ...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Mindfulness without Meditating

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This week's episode of On Being had a great conversation about mindfulness.  Many of us may hear the word "mindfulness" and t...
Monday, June 2, 2014

A Poem for the Second Day of Hurricane Season

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I have so little time to write today, so it seems a good day to post a poem.  Yesterday, I was looking for hurricane themed poems and came a...
Sunday, June 1, 2014

Day 1 of Hurricane Season 2014

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June 1:  the start of hurricane season 2014.  My cousin-in-law's husband says that if the upper level winds stay the way they are, we wo...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

The Feast Day of the Visitation for Moderns

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Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation, the day when Mary goes to her older cousin Elizabeth. Both are miraculously pregnant, Mary w...
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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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