May 2001

  
Ted Berryman
   

Fuscienne's phrog

  
  
Ted Berryman is a carpenter, living on a cattle ranch in the mountains behind San Diego. He chose his lifestyle, “spartan yet naturally beautiful,” not because it provides him not with the independence of wealth, but with the wealth of independence. With a limited education he has taught himself in turn to be a fine woodworker, a wood and then stone sculptor, a writer, and a painter in oils. He has also worked in lumber mills, been a commercial fisherman and a wanderer. He has four grown children who he stays close to.

Not enamored by contemporary American culture, he supplies meaning in his life by “privately subverting the culture with expressions of causal, if not always ratifying essences.”

This is his first publication.

enlarged view.

Able Muse

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