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Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

Pacemakers & Child’s Pose:

A story about inheritance & intentionality, power & symbols, knowing & being, how we see & what makes our hearts beat

Aug 21, 2022

Pacemakers & Child’s Pose:

Aug 21, 2022

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

Was it Music or the Wind?

A Third Culture Carpet Ride through the Jordanian Desert with Jackson Browne*

May 23, 2022

Was it Music or the Wind?

May 23, 2022

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

The Foster Garden

When my neighbor, an environmental engineer, moved in six years ago, she meticulously planned her garden in excel sheets. She mapped the…

May 9, 2022

The Foster Garden

May 9, 2022

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

Keeping the Watch

Foreword: I awoke to a treasure chest on my porch. My father didn’t call, didn’t knock; he just made a five-hour round trip drive to leave…

May 1, 2022

Keeping the Watch

May 1, 2022

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

Restoration

Forward: The object below may appear to be a secretary desk that was commissioned for my grandmother, by my grandfather, on their fifth…

Apr 23, 2022

Restoration

Apr 23, 2022

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

The Case Against the Case Against Expanding NATO & Realpolitik Skis

This piece is a response to Charles A. Kupchan’s “Putin’s War in Ukraine Is a Watershed. Time for America to Get Real” in the New York…

Apr 13, 2022

The Case Against the Case Against Expanding NATO & Realpolitik Skis

Apr 13, 2022

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

Did We Just Flatten the Hierarchy or Recreate Feudalism?

Middle management layers have been decreasing for decades, but a few years ago, consultants gave COOs the idea we could really “flatten”…

Mar 5, 2022

Mar 5, 2022

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

Still There: Desert Fatigues & the Waiting War

Driving six miles down a gravel road near Fort Riley, Kansas, the perpetual dust of hog farms and the crushed stalks of corn and alfalfa…

Feb 26, 2022

Feb 26, 2022

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

Gatekeepers

A Short Story, South Carolina, February 1868.

Feb 21, 2022

Gatekeepers

Feb 21, 2022

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

Hard Candy & Soft Tissue: 9/11 Twenty Years Later

It was another great American exceptionalism that foreign terrorism had never struck such a soft target on US soil before, at least not in…

Sep 11, 2021

Sep 11, 2021

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

Cristel Gutschenritter Orrand

Writer, Principal Consultant at NOVATUM Consulting, Historian, Researcher, Pugilist, Politico https://www.facebook.com/groups/585714198294643/

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