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Derryberry

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About Me

I make things.I'm afraid of sharks.I believe in love at first sight and am still trying to recover from it.

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My Interests

Redemption, being swept off my feet, riding down hills on my Bianchi, graceland, diners, fancy old movie theatres, Rt. 66, crushes, monasteries, music, film, art, theatre, collaboration, performance art, quantum physics, holy acres, oceans, birds, nests, paint, anything or anyone shiny, historic places, roadtrips, adventures, superheroes, surprises, animals, children, the innocent, Aveda products, things falling towards where they need to be.

I'd like to meet:

Divine appointments

Music:

Devendra Banhart, Sufjan Stevens, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Shivaree, The Shins, Iron and Wine, Gillian Welch, Jump, Little Children, Go-Go's, Decemberists, Nick Drake, Mazzy Starr, PJ Harvey, Neil Young, Pixies, The Cure, Beck, Fischerspooner, Patsy Cline, Elliott Smith, Jane's Addiction, 70's/80's era soundtracks like Hair and Xanadu, anyone who sings me to sleep.

Movies:

My Own Private Idaho, Anything by Harmony Korine, Wizard of Oz, Tully, Harold and Maude, Old Joy, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Vanilla Sky, Hair, City of Lost Children, Garden State, Moulin Rouge, Velvet Goldmine, Anything by Linklater, Good Will Hunting, Heavenly Creatures, Xanadu, Grease, The Proposition

Television:

Six Feet Under, Project Runway, So You Think You Can Dance

Books:

Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rumi, the Beats, Anything by Rainer Maria Rilke, Dave Eggers, All of the Griffin and Sabine books, Anne Lamott's non-fiction, Pablo Neruda, Nick Hornby, Children's books, Fairy Tales, Kahlil Gibran

Heroes:

Jesus, Elvis, Sister Aimee, Wonder Woman, Sandy from "Grease," Edward S. Curtis, Berger from "Hair," Robin Hood, Martha Cooley, Anne Bonny, St. Augustine, St. Francis, Black Mamba, Basquiat

My Blog

Back in babys arms

It feels good to be settling into my new life in Nashville. It's amazing how smoothly things have unfolded here--further evidence of the sweetness of grace. I'm in nesting mode, yet moving forward sim...
Posted by Derryberry on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:12:00 PST

Today

Today after work the sun was still shining even after the long commute. Plus, I had more energy after a good, unexpected call from an old friend. I felt like moving forward, venturing further past my ...
Posted by Derryberry on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:27:00 PST

AZ Bound!

Dear Folks: Next week I'm off to Arizona for a much needed vacation. I'm going to be dividing my time between Phoenix & Tucson--but I haven't entirely ruled out the possibility of dropping that id...
Posted by Derryberry on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:30:00 PST

Thank God

I feel like I've finally come through a crop of boulders, squeezed through those "Fat Man's" rocks at Ruby Falls. Things are moving open in me again. A couple of weeks ago, the first poem in mont...
Posted by Derryberry on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:54:00 PST

Streams

    Something happened when I took communion this morning--a stream formed in the desert--and I feel at peace. I came home and turned our little deck into a makeshift studio. I just fin...
Posted by Derryberry on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 02:37:00 PST

Uninspired

When you're moving & inspired, sometimes it's hard to remember what it's like not to be. Right now I'm not. It's familiar and I take comfort in knowing it won't go one forever. But I much pre...
Posted by Derryberry on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:43:00 PST

Sometimes things make sense

My mom e-mailed me this picture of my dad & me--from when I was a toddler and he was a guitar strumming hippie (as well as a lawyer). This image encapsulates so much my adoration of him & subs...
Posted by Derryberry on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:58:00 PST

Alice Walker

I got to meet Alice Walker--Pulitzer prize winning author of The Color Purple--the other day. I recognized her on the street. She was incredibly warm & gracious while I was overcome & awkward,...
Posted by Derryberry on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:58:00 PST

Potluck Protest

'Tis the season for potlucks, so there has lately been a rash of them, thus intensifying my hatred for them. Firstly, there are 3 main categories of potlucks: 1) The hyper-organized pot...
Posted by Derryberry on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:59:00 PST