PinnedErik Rittenberry·Feb 1, 2020The American Life Is Killing You“I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And…A response icon162A response icon162
Erik Rittenberry·Nov 1The Strange Wisdom of Sitting Among the DeadThe older we get, the more the ghosts crowd and claim us. Death does not deter the dead from living on within us and around us. We are…A response icon1A response icon1
Erik Rittenberry·Oct 1912 Crucial Books for Those Who Suspect the Modern World Has Lost Its SoulEsoteric, mystical, and forbidden books for those who suspect reality is far deeper than we’ve been told.A response icon21A response icon21
Erik Rittenberry·Oct 13Where Is the Life We Have Lost in Living?“I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the…
Erik Rittenberry·Sep 3A Place on Earth: Remembering Wendell Berry“So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute…Give your approval to all you cannot understand…Ask the questions that have no…A response icon2A response icon2
Erik Rittenberry·Jul 26The Unraveling of the “Civilized” World“You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.”A response icon4A response icon4
Erik Rittenberry·Apr 27A Morning Walk in a Broken WorldI stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.A response icon5A response icon5
Erik Rittenberry·Mar 1The Cult of Busyness and the Death of the Inner Life“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.”A response icon5A response icon5
Erik Rittenberry·Jan 4Jack London: The Function of Man is to LIVE, not to Exist“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”A response icon2A response icon2
Erik Rittenberry·Dec 20, 2025The Wisdom of Travel: Insights from Wanderers“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us…A response icon2A response icon2
