My Name is Gerald Allen Barrett.  Jerry is what my friends call me.

Words fascinated me.

Poetry is a way to play with words; distill them. I give you permission to read between the lines.

Prose is the medium-well done poetry you will discover here.

The essay is words of focus on something of interest to me. My hope is the subject will catch your fancy too.

Fiction: made up stuff, cobbled together in scene after scene with a beginning, middle, and end.

The filter through which I handle this thing called life and try to write about is the You, the God, the Other who set me in the here and now.  Like John-Boy sitting at his desk by the window at the end of each episode of the T.V. show The Waltons, the posts in this blog are observations of any given day.  I write them down in hopes of awakening the wonder that is all around us.

The faith I hold in Jesus Christ is the hope that underlays the words written here. In the gospel of John it says in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. God loves words and so do I.

If you love words and take their meaning somewhat seriously, you might just enjoy a break from life as you know it and wander around this blog a bit.