Embrace the Thing That Is Truly You

Don’t pour whiskey on your bluebird

Photo by Conner Weiss

Two Jeremy Mann oil paintings hang on the wall beside the bookcase in my little writing studio.

They are dark, almost monochromatic figure studies, loosely expressed in Jeremy’s unique, masterful originality. A few years back, I spent an entire day driving from Las Vegas to an art gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to…