Rensing, Robert

Robert Rensing was born in the Netherlands in 1932 and was an adolescent during the Nazi occupation. His most lasting memory was wondering why everyone on both sides supported killing. This concern haunted him into adulthood and was his primary reason for leaving a successful career in human resources in 1975 to become a homesteader in a remote part of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Finally, he had time to read, to write, and to dream. Some of his poetry and short stories have been published in anthologies.

In 1982, he was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer. With doctors giving him only two...