Kent has contributed a reflection to the Spirituality and Practice commemoration of the events of 9/11. It can be found, along with many other writers' thoughtful reflections, poems, and observations about that event by clicking here. You will find it under the section on "Refections, Poems, and Stories for the 10th anniversary of 9/11."
Kent will also be speaking on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Septembe 13th, in Alumni Hall in the Johnson Student Union. He will be speaking on The Wolf at Twilight, which was used as the Reading in Common book for all freshmen at Gustavus this year, as well as in the St. Peter Reads program. He will be joined by his friends, Martin and Ray Sensmeier, a Tlingit father and son from Alaska, who will speak and answer questions about their experience and belief as Native people in contemporary society. The public is welcome.
Hello, everyone. I'd like to alert you to what I hope will be a wonderful experience. Fred and Mary Ann Brussat have for years run the Spirituality and Practice website. It is, to my mind, the best clearinghouse for spiritual thinking available anywhere. I encourage all of you to look at it simply for that reason.
However, they have accorded me the distinct privilege of putting together an e course around my writings. It will consider the major themes, major ideas, and important passages in my work. I, personally, am very excited to see what they do with this, because no one has ever collated my thoughts before. I consider it a gift and an honor, because no one could do it better than they can.
I'm alerting you to this e course so any of you who might be interested will have a chance to sign up. I will be doing an audio interview with Fred and Mary Ann sometime during the course, so we will have a chance to share thoughts about the whole experience.
Please go to the following website to find out more: http://bit.ly/KentNerburnEC I'm very excited about this event, and hope you will be, too.
Kent
Dear readers,
Among the great pleasures of my life as an author are the numerous notes I receive
from readers. In the last few days I have heard from folks in the Maldives, Spain,
Australia, Britain, and a number of locations in the United States. All these contacts
are gratifying, and I thank each of you who has written.
Yesterday, however, I received a note that has some information I want to pass on
to the rest of you. One of my readers informed me that he had listened to audio
versions of Neither Wolf nor Dog and The Wolf at Twilight through a Library of
Congress service of books for the Blind and Physically Impaired.
The website is HERE. The actual application form is at HERE.
Those of us without physical impairments cannot gain access to these recordings.
But if you know someone who is either blind or otherwise physically impaired, who
would enjoy either of these two books, connect them with this site.
This is a great joy to me. Over the years I have had many requests for audio versions
of my work. But the publishers have not seen fit to produce them.
As a result, I actually recorded a version of Small Graces on my own because of a
request from a reader whose parents had wanted it read to them while they were
in hospice. This recording is still available from wolfnordog.com, and I encourage
any of you who are interested to order it from there if it is something you would
like to have. You should be able to hear a few a few sample tracks from it on the
wolfnordog website.
However, my main concern today is to alert you to the Library of Congress
recordings of Neither Wolf nor Dog and The Wolf at Twilight. I hope some of you
will check into these and give me your thoughts. I am thrilled that these works will
now be available to folks who are unable to experience them in the print version,
and I look forward to hearing your comments.
All my best,
Kent