The World is Spilling Over with Good People

Posted on April 26, 2020 by stephen t berg / 10 Comments

Early this morning standing in rain:sparrow and junco soaking in song,quail content in blackberry tangle,radiance coming up through wet gravel; look closer, the...

Poetry/Presence/Writing

Dear Citizen Reader

Posted on April 20, 2020 by stephen t berg / 23 Comments

The other day I was congratulated by LinkedIn (such intimacy) for owning my “business” (Grow Mercy) for 14 years. It’s a nice number. No less employed by the go...

Easter/Light

Easter Is

Posted on April 12, 2020 by stephen t berg / 4 Comments

an undersong of frogs at the hint of spring; a quiet eddy in the rapids of decay; deer running through December bringing fawns of April; my father reading the m...

Mercy/Music

Music for a Pandemic

Posted on April 4, 2020 by stephen t berg / 6 Comments

Musicologist Christopher Macklin says “O sancte Sebastiane”, by Guillaume Dufay, was a chart-topper for those trying to cope in the wake of the Blac...