Time with these genuine, inclusive pieces is time well spent. Richman’s authentic voice illuminates the place where internal and external landscapes merge into meaning. Like a desert stream, human meaning meanders before coming to rest. Fisher, Richman adds a unique, deeply intimate-and often humorous-voice to the concurrence of human experience. Inspired by masters of the traditional personal essay such as E.B. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Ordinary Truth. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.

From the monsoonal rains in the carved slot canyons of the Escalante to the eroticism of dirt on skin in a remote slice of the Grand Canyon from the defiance of academic authority to the curled, arthritic fingers of her mother and grandmothers, Richman sinks into the realities that make us human and fallible and blessed. The Ordinary Truth - Kindle edition by Richman, Jana. In these wide-ranging personal essays, Richman travels interior roads through fear, kindness, ignorance, darkness, wildness, compassion, solitude, loneliness, and more-always asking how external geography informs our internal geography. In essays both personal and profoundly universal, Richman eschews quick and easy answers for quiet reflections on the questions: In a culture demanding that every voice be heard, how do we make sense of the resulting roar? Where do we seek solace when the last quiet places are sacrificed to human hubris? How do we shed the angst thrust upon us to create lives of peace? Ocean LifeSally Morgan, Ready for Adolescence: 12 Family Night ActivitiesMike Nappa, Trucker Paradise: The Truth and Tales of the Trucking IndustryM. Moving through the settings of her life-red rock canyons, aspen forests, mountains, and cities-Jana Richman probes the depths of her internal landscape and asks how we can find stillness in our noisy world.

The Ordinary Truth by Jana Richman