Changed by a Double Lung Transplant and Subsequently Compelled to Create with Playwright Curt Strickland

My Time, My Life by Trinette Faint

Episode notes

On this episode of My Time, My Life, my special guest is playwright and landscape photographer Curt Strickland. Curt is also a political and cultural essayist, expressing his views on topical issues of the day. When Curt isn’t writing, he’s practicing landscape photography, born out of his previous career as a former owner of Great American Art, one of the largest commercial art corporations in the United States.

Curt believes that all art forms should serve to heal, inspire, provoke, challenge and offer hope – but most of all to connect and remind us of our common humanity. He believes in the power of words and their power to ignite change and inspire, and to be used as a tool to ‘fight the power.’

In 2020, Curt received a double lung transplant, an event that had profound effects on both his writing and his life. This exper ... 

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