Blog – Creative Courage

Artwork, Creative Courage, Featured Work

I wanted to share a thought on our education system here in Nevada. I just saw an analysis by WalletHub that ranked Nevada 43rd overall in education with the state ranking 30th in terms of quality of education and 44th in education attainment. I’d like to propose the notion that the missing piece to this puzzle is…

Painting: Edinburgh

February 4, 2022

Painting: Bellagio

February 4, 2022

Exhausted

September 23, 2021

I gather sea salt with lacerated hands and make a nest to sit in. I look into the empty sky and chew on blackthorn bushes and grapevines that have grown around my neck and died over the years. They splinter and crack and fall around my feet as I stand up and walk to the…

My Last Love

September 23, 2021

I hold her hand to keep her from falling away from me. To a place where language is meaningless, and love is only a noun. I embrace her as tightly as I can with my four fingers in her palm. She is startled and confused by me every morning. “It’s me, Thomas, my love. I’ll…

The Last Woman I Will Ever Love

August 10, 2021

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I hold her hand to keep her from falling away from me. To a place where language is meaningless, and love is only a noun. I embrace her as tightly as I can with my four fingers in her palm. She is startled and confused by me every morning. “It’s me, Thomas, my love. I’ll…

The ember.

August 5, 2021

And from my nest in the woods I carried my ember into the wind. “Lay down your fire and rest with me.” She said. I replied by running harder into the dry brittle grass. I narrowed my sight on the farthest end of the field And struggled to keep my flame alive.

Sample of artwork done for The Sound of Laughing Rabbits.

February 13, 2021

Bradford L. Salamon painting my portrait

July 22, 2020

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