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Spinning
Spinning It is a little over a month since my last piece. In that time the world has turned green, the peonies have opened and gracefully...

Shana Ritter
May 12, 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...

Shana Ritter
Apr 8, 20161 min read
Grandson
Grandson.

Shana Ritter
Jun 4, 20151 min read
Weeding
Weeding. #poetrymonth

Shana Ritter
May 3, 20151 min read
A habit of words
A habit of words. #napowrimo #poetry #Writing

Shana Ritter
Apr 23, 20151 min read
Wishing Time Away
Wishing Time Away. #place #poetry #time #Writing

Shana Ritter
Feb 25, 20151 min read
Hoosier Landscape in Snow
Hoosier Landscape in Snow.

Shana Ritter
Feb 18, 20151 min read
Walking the Labyrinth
Walking the Labyrinth.

Shana Ritter
Nov 13, 20141 min read
Ghost Ranch Retreat
When the boundaries of my heart are blurred it is time to retreat into the words held in that small cave: the place that is sweetly damp...

Shana Ritter
Nov 6, 20141 min read
Once again….
Once again…..

Shana Ritter
Oct 22, 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 ...

Shana Ritter
Aug 21, 20141 min read


What to do in order to contain the pulls and pushes of to do lists and have tos that have nothing to
I think about the notion of compartmentalization. Cordoning off aspects of my life into sections fenced neatly off one from the other. It...

Shana Ritter
Jul 17, 20142 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...

Shana Ritter
Jul 2, 20141 min read


Go Hoosiers!
Today makes me proud to live in Indiana – yesterday the Indiana Supreme court found it unconstitutional to ban marriage between any two...

Shana Ritter
Jun 26, 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...

Shana Ritter
Jun 19, 20141 min read
Lighting Candles
This is birthday week at my house – my daughter, spouse, and both my grandsons’ birthdays come one after the other – 2 on the same day-...

Shana Ritter
Jun 5, 20142 min read
Fireflies
Fireflies. #Writing

Shana Ritter
May 29, 20141 min read
Unfolding Time
Unfolding Time.

Shana Ritter
May 15, 20141 min read
Still Country
Still Country. #Writing

Shana Ritter
May 8, 20141 min read
The happenstance of blue
The happenstance of blue.

Shana Ritter
May 1, 20141 min read
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