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Elder benjamin black elk1/1/2024 ![]() ![]() You disenfranchised me with your essay against guns and white people. ![]() I happen to be a chain-smoking, longbow or gun-toting pagan, “yogi,” and a European American. I noticed prejudice and one-sided, indoctrinated, rigidity in your essay on guns and feel the essay detracts from your life work. I noticed the comment above, on your article in the Star Tribune on gun culture, and so I read the ‘It’s our gun culture that’s mentally ill’Īrticle. Kent, I read your work with strong interest and have recommended ‘Neither Wolf Nor Dog’ to many people. I have often thought of writing to the author, to profoundly thank him for writing one of the most important and relevant books I have been fortunate to have read. Kent Nerburn’s beautifully written wisdoms were there to comfort me when I lost my father to cancer three years ago and now they are ever present as I face uncertainty through redundancy. I read the prologue to the book, ‘A Father’s Wish’, on the occasions of my sons’ naming ceremonies, because it perfectly encapsulated the struggles and joys of fatherhood. The wisdom the book imparts was, and indeed remains, priceless in helping me forge my own life as a father, artist and teacher. It provided great solace, healing and a greater understanding of humankind and, most importantly, touched my heart. At the time, I was suffering from trauma in my life and this book had a profound affect upon me by helping me see the world in which we live from another perspective. ![]() I discovered ‘ Letters to My Son’, by pure chance, in a secondhand book stall,in Brighton, UK. ![]()
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