A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern LandFrom the vast grandeur of the Great Plains to the dark solitude of the northern woods, from the fierce intensity of a sudden summer storm to the quiet redemption of a perfect blanket of snow, Kent Nerburn pays homage to the land that has shaped the lives and cultures of northern people. Nerburn's essays range broadly from deeply personal narratives of the author's experiences among the Ojibwe, to dark meditations on the uncompromising winters of northern Minnesota, to mystical celebrations of water and light. Throughout, Nerburn writes with an incandescent radiance and intellectual passion that are at once elemental, provocative, and startling. Deeply grounded in the struggle for authentic spiritual awakening - a path based on awareness rather than explanation - Nerburn's words illuminate the intricate subtleties of nature with intimacy and power. |
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... trailer is a beacon , a marker on this odd forty - nine - mile stretch of forgotten road . Twenty- eight miles south lies a dying main street farm town , the last outpost of the rich , deciduous forests and farmlands of the Midwest ...
... trailer is a beacon , a marker on this odd forty - nine - mile stretch of forgotten road . Twenty- eight miles south lies a dying main street farm town , the last outpost of the rich , deciduous forests and farmlands of the Midwest ...
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... trailer . She would not leave a car hood unhinged , like a broken jaw , unless it were beyond her to force it closed . " But what of her husband ? " I think . I know he exists . His faded flannel shirts hang splayed on the line , like ...
... trailer . She would not leave a car hood unhinged , like a broken jaw , unless it were beyond her to force it closed . " But what of her husband ? " I think . I know he exists . His faded flannel shirts hang splayed on the line , like ...
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... trailer for years , and it will allow me no delusions . How to explain this ? Other houses , empty as skulls , stand abandoned along this lonely barren road . Other trailers , as torn and beaten as this , dot the sparse fields in ...
... trailer for years , and it will allow me no delusions . How to explain this ? Other houses , empty as skulls , stand abandoned along this lonely barren road . Other trailers , as torn and beaten as this , dot the sparse fields in ...
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