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Shana Ritter
Sep 4, 20172 min read
poetry on demand
September brings a new beginning, the start of a new year, my own birthday near to the high holidays, days when the gates swing open, and...
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Shana Ritter
Apr 8, 20161 min read
poetry
Outside the day has turned to cold gray rain and spring rolled back to a late winter sky. But oh the light. the light against the tender...
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Shana Ritter
Feb 25, 20161 min read
What I learned about being still
It is not lying around It is not maintaining one position It is not counting breaths although counting breaths helps to get to a certain...
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Shana Ritter
Feb 25, 20152 min read
Wishing Time Away
The light belies the cold. Even with six inches of snow on the ground, even with temperatures barely rising above 20 F there is no doubt...
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Shana Ritter
Feb 18, 20151 min read
Hoosier Landscape in Snow
Hoosier Landscape in Snow.
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Shana Ritter
Sep 4, 20142 min read
Back Home Again…
I have been home for four days following our two week sojourn in Peru. It was a truly wonderful trip in many aspects, not just the places...
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Shana Ritter
Aug 21, 20141 min read
Viaje
I am having coca tea just off the plaza in Ollantaytambo . We have been traveling 5, or is it 6 days and therein lies my point. Time ...
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Shana Ritter
Aug 7, 20141 min read
Dreaming
Last night in my dream I saw a glacier out the window. It invited me to walk on it, it’s name was murphy’s glacier. When I turned from...
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Shana Ritter
Jul 2, 20141 min read
A question of balance
When my children were young and my days full of constant juggling I would take moment in the darkening and walk outside to look up at the...
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Shana Ritter
Jun 19, 20141 min read
A little something on nothing
Today I have an overwhelming urge to do nothing. To sit and let the day pass by, the sky shift from pale cloudless blue to a morass of...
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Shana Ritter
Apr 17, 20141 min read
Made of Memories
I have been writing a poem a day in honor of national poetry month. Four of us who write together weekly have been sharing these online...
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Shana Ritter
May 28, 20132 min read
Constructs
Much of the reason I started this blog is give myself a mandate to practice writing something in a short prose form addressed to a...
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Shana Ritter
May 24, 20131 min read
word by word
Unusual for me I woke with a visually, audibly clear dream. In this dream I tried to create things by thinking and imagining, I tried to...
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