{"id":5030,"date":"2019-04-29T07:43:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2020-06-24T01:21:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T08:21:59","slug":"the-bonnie-and-clyde-files-launch-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/the-bonnie-and-clyde-files-launch-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bonnie and Clyde Files Launch (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-5030\" data-postid=\"5030\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-5030 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My\nlatest book, <em>The Bonnie and Clyde Files: How Two Senior Dogs Saved\na Middle Aged Man <\/em>is out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nis book launch week and in the following days I will share some\nexcerpts from the book and other writing related to it. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\ninvite you to support me and an independent Oregon publisher by\npurchasing direct from my web site, nestuccaspitpress.com \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only\n300 copies of the book were printed. It is not available in\nbookstores (yet). Your purchase of this special edition will help\nkeep me in the writing and publishing game. I have a lot more stories\nto tell. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About\nthe book: \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn\n2017, at the age of 53, I experienced an\nextinction of self. For the first time in my life, I could not get a\njob, I was nearly broke, and I had no freedom of movement or\nconscience. I was an American outcast trapped in a labyrinth known as\nprobation, desperately engaged in the ultimate struggle to stave off\nmarginalization. There I was, lying on the couch, talking to my dead\nhusky, words echoing through the house that was empty because I had\nperformed terrible hospice care on myself and given away almost\neverything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then\nI found two senior dogs named Bonnie and Clyde, residents of  a\nsenior dog sanctuary along a river. There, walking two dogs, I\nresurrected as a human being. I read the river, tracked elk, watched\nbirds, slayed blackberries, skipped rocks, cursed clearcuts, walked\nin rain and went deep into heretofore unknown areas of my creative\nmind. With Bonnie and Clyde at my side, I learned important lessons\nof faith, friendship, family, face-to-face encounters and the\ntimeless remedy of nature, lessons I intuit can enlighten others who\nexperience a cataclysmic personal event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n<em>The Bonnie and Clyde Files<\/em>, I merge essay, cultural criticism,\nmemoir, streams of consciousness and poetry to create a hybrid of a\ngenre that is unlike any dog book I have ever read. I wrote on\ninstinct, channeled Walt Whitman, and became a dog to better explore\nhumanity, my country and the treatment of men and women at the hands\nof the state&#8217;s criminal justice system. 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