Reflections of Gratitude

Applause applauded to the several contributors within www.tomtezins.com Website, beginning with Web Commander Hillary’s talented, collaborative leadership.

B/W Drawings by Malabika Goldar, who is an international visual artist living in the Southwest of New Mexico – USA.

Meet the Author, image from the Albuquerque Magazine September 2010 in the “Creatives” section – photo by Liz Lopez and story by Ashley M. Biggers.

Portrait of character, Taylore s. Burton by Taos artist, Laura Robb many moons ago.

And Sojourn self-publishing, like a broad stroke schooling many integral sorts of people toward authorships, under the direction of Tom Bird.

Special thanks to Michael O’Shaughnessy, for the author’s photo-portrait on the back Cover of “Under The Red Willow” unveils Tom Te’ Zins, as a Transformance Artist. Here is where transformation sets an improvisational performance as long as art plays with any creative process available toward community endeavors; such as avant-garde theatre troupes in the 80’s, Art Lab in Northern New Mexico within the 90’s, a public educator in the 2000’s, and in the teen-decade presently –a writer in disguise of foto-pigments.

Foreword From A Few

Reviews from Under the Red Willow

“The brave ones,” declares one of the main characters “those courageous, collegial endorsers toward tom te’zins, who have read the original visual-manuscript; likewise, Tom Bird refers to as The Soul Read. These few people were chosen for buoyant feedback, for the book’s worthiness regarding theme, plot, pace and content matters before the professional edits became available. Then, with all the collective responses, the author added the final finishing polishes rhythmically, so the creative word play interjects sensibility tunes with Language Arts in the Key of Z to the creative process. And as a result, this book’s framework settles into an artistic novel; therefore, readers enjoy, openly, this journey into Love, Guts, and Study.” T. s. B.

Mary Zins: maryzins.com “The book does render one speechless inside this unique work of art.”

Malabika Goldar: “I like this book and when is the next one coming out?” Hand Artes Gallery – Truchas, New Mexico.

Temple Shald of Mother Earth: “The crafting words read so beautifully, and I laughed a lot.”

Joe Torres: “I sure have enjoyed all of our brotherly chats throughout the years while our personal relationship has grown into a good friendship – the best for your book.”

Kelly Pasholk: winkvisualsarts.com “Your writing is like reading a surreal painting.”

Frank Maher: “I don’t get it, so I’ll have to wait for the hardback.”

Vincent Aguilar – A memory maker of natural stones into handmade inlays for Fine Art from Santo Domingo Pueblo, N.M. “You have my mind going around in circles – dizzy in miracles.”

David and Margaret Hiller: “A deeply honest and healing book reads, as if, the words are written with warm honey.”

Jonah Blue and Alissa Lukara: transformationalwriters.com “A creative journey in prose that streams love.”

John Waterman: “Once I got started; I couldn’t put the book down – nice work.”

Paula and Aaron Lewis: paulamanninglewis.com <> nmsunlight.com “This book is a surreal journey of an imaginable brain walking with awakenings in creative mindfulness.”

Judith and Gino Schiavone: theschiavonestudio.com “The author builds a word bridge that gives voice to his personal and creative realm.”

Liz Painter: lizpainter.com “Your writing is truly inspiring from one artist to another.”

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Marsha Hayes says this about the author, Tom Te Zins:

“An innovative writer who explores new ground while he is skilled at removing mysterious stains too. Somewhere near the mirage of a Blue Motel gathering – out in the middle of everywhere – below a lively Milky Way rests playfully another artist that has gone singing with the coyotes.”

By artist Malabika Goldar.
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