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Cover and interior art by Martín Prechtel

Cover and book design by Suzanne Albertson

The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise is sponsored and published by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences (dba North Atlantic Books), an educational nonprofit based in Berkeley, California, that collaborates with partners to develop cross-cultural perspectives, nurture holistic views of art, science, the humanities, and healing, and seed personal and global transformation by publishing work on the relationship of body, spirit, and nature.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Prechtel, Martín.

The smell of rain on dust : grief and praise / Martín Prechtel.

pages cm

Summary: “This series of teachings on the relationship between grief and praise in our culture inspires hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses”—Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-58394-939-9 (paperback)—ISBN 978-1-58394-940-5 (ebk)

1. Grief—Social aspects. 2. Grief—Religious aspects. 3. Praise. 4. Spiritual life. I. Title.

BF575.G7.P73 2015

155.9’3—dc23     2015000403