Author Archives: davetcourt

As I mentioned earlier, remembering my life is, in part, actively travelling the roads back through the different neighborhoods and houses I have called home over the years. Our first moves (“our” being my family), from Manitoba avenue in the north end, over the iconic Redwood bridge, which crosses our city’s main water line, theContinue reading “My Life Story: Chapter 6”

Got a life, and it’s my first time livingGot eyes, but that don’t mean I have visionSome days just getting through is winningSome days you just say good riddance Got a heart, but it’s my first time feelingGot a floor that used to be my ceilingSome people have a way of reachingAll the parts youContinue reading “How Do We Know Anything At All: Reflections on the Fray, Ephesians, and the Life Lived In-between”

*as mentioned elsewhere in this space, these installments are my intention to get a very rough draft of a personal project I have been working on for a numbers of years (writing my life story) off the word d and somewhere where it could hold me accountable to doing something with it. At this pointContinue reading “My Life Story: Chapter 5”

Anyone taking a jaunt through the hallways and rooms of our home, the first thing that is likely to jump out is the sheer amount of attention our walls and shelves give to New York City. If asked, the reason for this visible presence woulld take the shape of a story. More specifically, the storyContinue reading “Once Upon a Time in America: How I Find My Relationship to America Changing, and How It Impacts My Feelings About the West”

Send Help (Sam Raimi)- The anticipated return of Raimi to what he does best, which is full on unfiltered horror/thriller mode. Don’t sleep on McAdams however, who seems charged up here to give Raimi some competition on that front. Whatever commentary it leaves slightly uncooked and underutilized it more than makes up for in entertainmentContinue reading “My February Watches”

My February Reads: 3. Sea of Memories by Fiona Valpy (Kindle e-book)Sentimental, but in all the right ways. I love how it begins so contained and then breaks wide open into a more sweeping narrative. Mostly I was immersed in its setting, which went a long ways in helping the characters to come alive asContinue reading “My February Reads”

*as stated elsewhere in this space, I’ve been slowly putting a rough draft of a project I’ve been working on forever (writing my life’s story) down in this space where I can let it breathe and have it hold me accountable to finishing it someday. Emphasize “rought draft,” but here is another installment: I imagineContinue reading “My Life Story: Chapter 4”

*as mentioned elsewhere, last year I sarted to construct my life story. I’ve slowly been forcing myself to put some of the rudimentary writings, in all of its rough and unedited form, into this space so as to hold myself accountable to it. This is another entry: As I’ve already mentioned, memory is a peculiarContinue reading “Chapter 4: The Story of My Life”

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts in this space, I’ve been journeying through the Gospel of Mark this year, both with my church and with select authors/commentaries. Along this journey I’ve been trying to stay open to whatever God desires to say through this study and meditation. Sometimes the thoughts that come from this areContinue reading “What Goes in Must Come Out: Making Sense of Jesus’ Commentary on Purity Laws in Mark 7”

I was listening to an interview with Thi Nguyen, author of his newest book The Score: How To Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game, and it raised some intriguing questions regarding the role of “measures” when it comes to the way we experience life in this world. His passion is games (see his book Games: Agency AsContinue reading “Analyzing The Game of Life: How Prayer Becomes An Antidote To Our Need For Control”