Written Inspiration : Jill Berry Blog

This is a piece that I did a few years ago. It is a wild on-the-floor journaling exercise that I did when I was working with Mary Oliver’s poem, Poppies. It took me about a half hour. Sometimes you just have to splash things around.
Some of this you can learn at Magical Midnight Stories at [...]

The Captain of my Soul

Posted on February 5, 2010 - Filed Under Written Inspiration | Leave a Comment

Lots of events this week.
Sam sent the dog outside saying “Teebo, wanna go out? Wanna go out into the world? Wanna go out into love?”
Sydney woke up and said “Mama, it feels like there is a whole world in my stomach and the continents are crashing into each other.”
My niece, Sophie and a large group [...]

YES

Posted on January 21, 2010 - Filed Under Written Inspiration | 4 Comments

Yes

It could happen any time, tornado,
earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen.
Or sunshine, love, salvation.

It could, you know. That’s why we wake
and look out — no guarantees
in this life.

But some bonuses, like morning,
like right now, like noon,
like evening.

~ William Stafford ~

This is one of my favorite poems by one of my [...]

Make it New

Posted on March 20, 2008 - Filed Under Written Inspiration | Leave a Comment

What an amazing roller coaster my life is right now. The good parts are wonderful, new and exciting, the bad parts are deep-in-the-soul painful. On the side of great things is my new exposure in print, more than four publications already this year, including Somerset Studio. Yesterday Jenny Doh at Somerset asked me to work with [...]

Sydney and Shakespeare

Posted on January 22, 2008 - Filed Under Written Inspiration | 2 Comments

My daughter Sydney is nine and brilliant. Lately she has been smitten with Shakespeare, and copies pithy quotes on lined paper which I find around the house. Here is one of her favorites: ‘We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail.’ Lady Macbeth said that. Isn’t that a visual? “The sticking place” [...]