Poetry Reading Recording

On November 4, I had the honor of performing a few poems at the request of my alma mater, West Texas A&M University. It clocks in at an hour and six minutes, which is a lot. So here are some of the highlights. 5:40 – Introduction and Greetings 7:10 – The Local Imagination 8:40 – […]

Design Cues

Ryan Culwell’s Flatlands

Ryan Culwell’s “Flatlands” turns five years old next week.

http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:uma:video:cmt.com:1161226/cp~vid%3D1161226%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Acmt.com%3A1161226 Get More: “There is a highway shot of those awful wind turbines in the beginning of the video,” he says. “If you follow that road another 40 miles, you’ll end up at the Adobe Walls, where 28 hunters defeated 700 Indians in 1874. Billy Dixon shot a warrior off his horse from a mile away […]

Dust Storms

THEY DO NOT HAPPEN NOW, the sandstorms of my childhood, when the western distance ochred, and the square emptied, and long before the big wind hit, you could taste the dust on your tongue, could feel the earth under you–and even something in you–seem to loosen slightly. Soon tumbleweeds began to skip and nimble by, […]

My friend Joshua makes desks (among other things). His family also runs The Shop, a membership-based woodworking shop that teaches you how to make your own furniture. Check it here: http://www.theshopamarillo.com/

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZFfTLWP0sc?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281] I felt as though the theme of this song were appropriate today (Ash Wednesday). Plus, half the video was shot on the land I grew up tending (in winter in drought). (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Amarillo skyline paintings and sketch. These were part of a larger project celebrating Advent at our church and illustrating passages out of Isaiah. These paintings were meant to illustrate Isaiah 1 and Isaiah 29, but I chose my hometown of Amarillo as the subject instead of Jerusalem. I love our city. At some point, I’ll […]