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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...

Shana Ritter
Sep 4, 20172 min read
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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...

Shana Ritter
Apr 8, 20161 min read
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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...

Shana Ritter
Feb 25, 20161 min read
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Weeding
Weeding. #poetrymonth

Shana Ritter
May 3, 20151 min read
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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...

Shana Ritter
Feb 25, 20152 min read
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Hoosier Landscape in Snow
Hoosier Landscape in Snow.

Shana Ritter
Feb 18, 20151 min read
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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...

Shana Ritter
Sep 4, 20142 min read
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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 ...

Shana Ritter
Aug 21, 20141 min read
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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...

Shana Ritter
Aug 7, 20141 min read
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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...

Shana Ritter
Jul 2, 20141 min read
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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...

Shana Ritter
Jun 19, 20141 min read
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The happenstance of blue
The happenstance of blue.

Shana Ritter
May 1, 20141 min read
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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...

Shana Ritter
Apr 17, 20141 min read
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Making Soup
Making Soup.

Shana Ritter
Mar 6, 20141 min read
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Turnings
Turnings.

Shana Ritter
Aug 29, 20131 min read
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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...

Shana Ritter
May 28, 20132 min read
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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...

Shana Ritter
May 24, 20131 min read
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