Stepping Through Time: The Human Experience Poetically Reflected

By Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate

The book was written in the 1980s. It contains the life cycle of mankind from Australopithecus to Australopithecus. In between mankind travels through human development to modern day and back to from where mankind supposedly originated. The life cycle is held in poetic form with intermittent descriptions of what steps of time mankind is currently going through.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493196821

Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate

Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate was born in Kitale of the British East African colony, today’s Kenya, and was raised until school age on a farm with the name Kalua-Estates. She received her basic education in various European countries as well as in a boarding school in Lucerne, Switzerland. Even though Lucerne is in the German Swiss, the school conducted all its classes and communications in French. Her BA and MA degrees were earned at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and her Ph.D. studies were completed at the University of California Berkeley and the University of California Los Angeles. She holds an AA degree in creative writing from the Palmer Writer School, at-tended several years of memoire writing through the Monterey Peninsula College, where she had the opportunity to share her writings with fellow students, most of them outstanding writers, and bought several courses in creative writing from The Great Courses. As professor in academia, she has numerous academic as well as creative writings presented at national conferences and published in academic journals as well as in local papers. She is the author of twenty-four books, with two volumes of memoires in the final stages and a novel about a father and son moving to Alaska almost completed.

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Copyright © 2014 by Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate.

Library of Congress Control Number:           2014906340

ISBN:                  Hardcover                              978-1-4931-9683-8

                            Softcover                                978-1-4931-9684-5

                            eBook                                     978-1-4931-9682-1

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CONTENTS

Introduction

About the Author

About the Book

Part I

External Time: From Age to Age

Part II

Internal Time: The Age of One Lifetime

Part III

Suspended Time

Part IV

Epilogue:

Part V

Notes

Introduction

About the Author

T HE AUTHOR, BRIGITTA Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate, has studied Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. She has travelled with her son, D. G. Spencer Ludgate, from one Indian Reservation to another Indian Reservation in order to have closer contact with the way of life of Native Americans. Her poetry has been published in several anthropological magazines. She holds an AA degree from the Palmer Writers’ School and an ABD degree in Germanic Linguistics and Germanic Folklore from the University of California at Los Angeles.

She is the author of Tales and Bedtime Stories, The Muddy Little Bell and The Lucia Rider.

About the Book

The book was written in the 1980s. It contains the life cycle of mankind from Australopithecus to Australopithecus. In between mankind travels through human development to modern day and back to from where mankind supposedly originated. The life cycle is held in poetic form with intermittent descriptions of what steps of time mankind is currently going through.

Part I

External Time

From Age to Age

I N THE BEGINNING, there was…

What was there, before howling storms of early time and human ingenuity brought about settlements, cities, industrialization, motorized transportation, radio, television, silicon chips, computer terminals and the mobile phone? There was a globe, merely turning on its changing axis, struggling to become something of importance in the universe, and on this globe creatures of all sorts came into existence. Among these creatures was one