Mitchell Ritter

Dawn or Dusk? Mitchell Ritter

The fourth in a series documenting a personal journey home after many years away. This latest volume marks a change in the author's perspective away from more personal issues, as he first realizes how much everything has changed - himself and his country. Through a discovery of what has happened to the national soul, and finally, a psychologically driven expose of a more urgent nature for we are approaching a point where everything has been so disrupted that it is unclear whether we, as a country, as a people, can find our way home to a new purpose, a new meaning. Or if not, are we headed to what every prior culture has experienced - a phase of internal decadence and decline. Though the subject is dark, the author's point of view is not. Choice is something we all have at every moment in our lives. The question is whether or not we exercise it, or if we abandon the dream in favor of a fantasy. The story is punctuated by a series of poems - or rhymes as the author prefers - designed to communicate metaphorically the message which precedes each one, setting the context. An interesting mix of heart and mind, each speaking its own language, but working together to produce a work of considerable consequence.