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HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Christmas is often seen as a time to stop, reflect and reorient ourselves from a life centered towards ourselves to a life centered on God and others. A breaking through of our routine. Liturgically speaking, it is the start of the Christian calendar, the beginning of that long road to being shaped towardsContinue reading “Thanksgiving And Virtuous Living”

Sadly, it has been a while since I’ve visited this space. With this being the end of a decade, I have been dedicating most of my time to working through a lengthy watchlist of films from the last decade, with the hope of eventually putting together a definitive top list of the decade this comingContinue reading “A Summer of Recondition and Renewal: Discovering The Difference Between Believing and Living”

When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 40 The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him. (Luke 2:39-40) My word for this year (see my ROSEBUD resolution challenge in this space) is Perspective. ThinkingContinue reading “From Advent to Christmas to Epiphany to the Time After- Learning to Become a Disciple of Jesus in the Ordinary of the Everyday”

“It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.”  ― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk Poetry. Poetry in motion. This is how I would describe If Beale Street Could Talk One could argue that the cries for acceptance, healing and freedom run deeper in Jenkin’s previous, Oscar winning Moonlight, but the dance of these sameContinue reading “If Beale Street Could Talk and The Power of a Human Moment”

It’s 3:00 A.M. on New Years Day. A cup of coffee finds me still awake and finishing off some of my blog posts and resolutions and thoughts of the year that has just past. In the dim light of the lamp that now sits in the corner of the room where our tree once gracedContinue reading “Our Lucy Girl: Remembering our Spirited Pup”

It’s that time again. As I spend time looking backwards, I’m also looking forward. Here is what is topping my personal most anticipated list for 2019:   14. Teen Spirit A follow up to A Star is Born or its own thing. More likely its own thing. And dang if it doesn’t look like anContinue reading “2019- My Most Anticipated Films List”

(amended from last year: a working description of what ROSEBUD is) A few years ago I began a New Years Resolution Plan called Rosebud. I heard about it on one of the podcasts that I follow. The process essentially looks like this: Step 1: List Three Roses- This is the stuff that I would considerContinue reading “Rosebud: A Continuing Resolution Process”

I’ve been setting aside some time over the last few weeks to look back on the year that was in film. Every time I do this I am struck by how how many of my favorite films tend to share in a common theme, and how timely those themes tend to be in my life. IContinue reading “My Year In Film: A Thematic and Personal Look at The Idea of of “Gaining Perspective””

It’s 2019. Which means it’s time to look back at the year that was and the films that were with top lists, notes and stats and more. Here are the stats that I weighed my lists against: Total number of films that I saw which were released in 2018: 130 Total number of films IContinue reading “My Year in Film Part 1: My Top Films of 2018 And More…”

Many of you know I am a bit of a cinephile. Yep, it’s true. I love film. What you might not know is that my first love happens to be reading. But over the years I have grown to love the visual arts more and more. Whereas literary form is an art form that worksContinue reading “My Life in Film- Preparing to Look Back at 2018”