Message on the Wind: A Spiritual Odyssey on the Northern Plains

by Clay S. Jenkinson

Release Date: 01 May, 2002

Edition: Paperback

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On the windswept bluffs he found his spiritual center

Message on the Wind is the diary of a successful white male who is trapped in an artificial world yet yearns to find his spiritual center and integrity. He finds himself on the wind swept open spaces and bluffs of the Great Plains where he can let down all of the guards and just be himself for a while.
This book is a must-read for understanding the challenges of being male in today's society and, I believe, an invitation to men to explore their more spiritual longings, perhaps on the open plains.

A Sense of Place

Thirty years ago I left the plains of Western North Dakota for the woods of Central Minnesota. I lasted six mohths. Clay S. Jenkinson expresses the reasons why I came back and why I have stayed. It is almost impossible to express to someone not from here what the badlands and the prairie can mean, but the author uses imagery that evokes a strong sense of place and spiritual belonging, much as N. Scott Momaday does. The people are real and the places are too. It is good to have someone who can say what I can't. This book is delightfully humorous and at the same time profound.