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Storefronts and brick buildings divided by a narrow cobblestone street.

Post #3: Unburial—Language, Memory, and Forceful Forgetting

We create routes and routines to enable ourselves to conduct our lives. These allow us to carry out mundane tasks on autopilot. They also provide the necessary order undergirding the selves and communities we are always in the act of constructing. These mental and physical maps can be disrupted by

By Ruth Ann Smalley
Post #2: How Did We Get Here, and Where Might We Go Next?

Post #2: How Did We Get Here, and Where Might We Go Next?

Let's jump right in. After November's election, I wracked my brain for a constructive response. Knowing what those first four years were like, I couldn't imagine how we'd withstand another round. Feelings of futility set in. But I took heart in the

By Ruth Ann Smalley
Rivers and tributaries emerge into a delta

Post #1: Reorienting

Greetings! Welcome to my site. I write from a little patch of ground in upstate New York, along the Mahicannituck river. Now known as the Hudson, it is the river that flows both ways, home of the people of the waters that are never still--the Mohicans who greeted Henry Hudson

By Ruth Ann Smalley
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