Wolf Nor Dog Enterprises - Autographed books and gifts by Kent Nerburn

Some thoughts, a video, and an offer to my friends in New England

And so the holiday season is upon us - corrupt around the edges because of its hysterical consumerism, but beautiful at its core because it is the one time of the year when our thoughts turn towards giving.

I've enjoyed a wonderful year speaking, writing, and meeting friends I've made through my books. A writer's world is a strange one where you develop long distance intimacies based on your writings, and it is always a revelation - and, almost invariably, a wonderful one -- when these relationships result in meetings face to face.

I'm posting a video of a wonderful event that took place at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Gustavus had honored me by making The Wolf at Twilight their common book to be read by all incoming freshmen. This video shows my talk and the beautiful and heartfelt presentations of Martin and Raymond Sensmeier, two absolutely stellar men - a son and father - who were kind enough to come down from their homes in Alaska to share the stage with me and speak about their experience as Native people living in a contemporary world.

I hope you will listen closely to Ray's talk. It held the audience spellbound and has much worth hearing. Events such as this are the reason I continue to work on Native subjects and themes: they provide me with an opportunity to give Native voices a chance to be heard.

In the next few months I will be traveling to New England for a speaking engagement. I would love to put some other stops on my schedule. It you have a venue anywhere in New England where you would like me to speak, please contact me. I get to your beautiful part of the country far less than I would like. I would dearly love to meet more of my readers and to share my writing with new audiences. No dates have yet been set, so anything is possible.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season. Remember those who no one else remembers. Keep in mind that for them this can be the loneliest season even as it can be the richest and most joyful for those of us who are blessed to be surrounded by friends and family.

I look forward to another year of growing, sharing, and learning. I wish the same for each of you.

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

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New! Views from the Reservation

Kent met photographer John Willis on the Pine Ridge Reservation. A friendship built on respect for each other and for the Native people grew out of that meeting. It was this mutual respect for each other's work that resulted in their collaboration on this book. Kent's eloquent essay provides words to help illuminate the powerful images. "Views from the Reservation is amazing-incredible pictures and heartfelt stories perfectly told. This is not only a terrific photo book, but also a very important one, telling a story needing to be told and preserving a significant piece of our history. Every photograph is a classic: carefully seen, lovingly captured, and painstakingly executed."-Henry Hornstein, Rhode Island School of Design "This is a beautiful, painful book: a soulful reminder of a dark part of our past and present; an elegant road to a better future."-Ken Burns

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New! "Native Gifts" Box

We created this limited edition gift box in time for the holidays. It features an autographed copy of Kent's spirit-filled compilation, Wisdom of Native Americans, and a special selection of Red Lake Nation products. This is an ideal gift to give to anyone interested in Kent's writings and our Native friends, or simply as a lovely gift from the heart.

Each Gift box contains: * one autographed copy of The Wisdom of the Native Americans * one brochure about Kent Nerburn * one 12 oz box (2-6 oz. bags) of 100% natural Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice * one wild rice recipe booklet * one box (12 bags) of Teepee Dreams caffeine free herbal tee * one box (3 bags) Lakota natural microwave popcorn * one j12 oz. jar Wild Blueberry Jam