http://kentnerburn.com Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:18:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In light of what is happening in the current Democratic dust-up between Obama and Clinton, someone reminded me of a blog entry I wrote in September of 2006. I read it and my jaw dropped. You could go back in my blog archives, but I think it deserves reprinting. Here it ... http://kentnerburn.com/archives/257/ As long-time readers of this blog realize, northern Minnesota winters induce a cryogenic state. I have been using this period of prolonged darkness and below zero temperatures to do a lot of writing on two main projects as well as trying to assist those who are pushing forward on the ... http://kentnerburn.com/archives/256/ A few weeks ago I received a wonderful selection of student responses to Neither Wolf nor Dog from Bill Davis, a teacher of philosophy and East Asian Studies at Blue Valley North High School in Stillwell, Oklahoma. The very fact that they have those courses speaks to the quality of ... http://kentnerburn.com/archives/254/ Most of you know Neither Wolf nor Dog, my "literary child" that has drawn the most attention of any of my books over the years. Few of you know To Walk the Red Road, the collection of Red Lake tribal members' memories that set in motion the events that resulted ... http://kentnerburn.com/archives/250/ A good day. A good week. I've spent these last warm days of autumn on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota with John Willis, a photographer and professor at Marlboro College in Vermont, and his wife, Pauline. John and I are collaborating on a book of his photographs. My ... http://kentnerburn.com/archives/249/ I'm going to make a strange comment, and I ask you to hear me out before you slam the computer shut in astonishment: When I think back on the journey to the Netherlands and Iceland, I keep being haunted by the thought that the Netherlands is perhaps the greatest possible cultural ... http://kentnerburn.com/archives/248/ I have just received several emails from readers saying that their experience in coming into the United States was far different and far more friendly and accommodating than the one that passengers on my plane encountered. They suggest that maybe our entry was an aberration or specific to that particular ... http://kentnerburn.com/archives/247/ Here is the embarrassment: I get off the plane in Amsterdam and see a sign asking me to choose door A or B depending on whether or not I have anything to declare. I do not, so I choose the "nothing to declare" door. I walk right out into the street ... http://kentnerburn.com/archives/246/ Travel is always good for one's perspective. You see the world, and your own life, anew. My recent travels to the Netherlands (and Iceland) did just that. The Netherlands is small, resolved, and involved in the grand experiment of controlling and mastering the environment. There are new cities, recently constructed on reclaimed ... http://kentnerburn.com/archives/245/ I'm back from the trip to the settled, resolved civility of the Netherlands and Belgium and my two day stopover in the surreal, almost lunar otherness of Iceland. Like any trip, it is hard to know where to begin. I could write about the astonishing juxtaposition of realities; I could ... http://kentnerburn.com/archives/244/