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Shana Ritter
- Mar 5, 2015
- 2 min
the daily work…
I have entered a new phase in my relationship with the book I am working on. After almost a week of being home alone, with multiple snows...
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Shana Ritter
- Feb 18, 2015
- 2 min
Hoosier Landscape in Snow
Winter has seen fit to descend finally and the last days have been bitter cold and snow covered, nothing like the northeast I know. But...
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Shana Ritter
- Jan 14, 2015
- 2 min
In the house of memory
My big brother has Alzheimers. I will go to visit him next week and be part of his Alzheimers Walk team. He is an honoree and has been...
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Shana Ritter
- Jan 7, 2015
- 2 min
Mapping
It is the coldest morning in a very long time. The dog is restless to go for a walk but I am not. I am fiddling with the fire in the new...
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Shana Ritter
- Dec 30, 2014
- 1 min
New Year
Time has slid into the New Year. It is December 30, the day before the turning and the sun has been a steady presence since just past...
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Shana Ritter
- Dec 11, 2014
- 2 min
Alone, at the table.
Today I am up before the sun. Sitting at the kitchen table with hot dark tea and the only sounds the last clock in the house with hands...
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Shana Ritter
- Nov 20, 2014
- 2 min
Crossing Antarctica
Winter has set in a month early. The trees are bare, the light is thin and there was a delicate covering of ice on the pond this morning,...
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Shana Ritter
- Nov 13, 2014
- 1 min
Walking the Labyrinth
Thursday I walked the labyrinth alone, Friday I walked it as part of a group. In the center I touched ground. The way out is harder then...
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Shana Ritter
- Nov 6, 2014
- 1 min
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...
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Shana Ritter
- Oct 29, 2014
- 2 min
Writing Practice
Today I am at a writing retreat with friends. We have taken most of a day away from the usual and set the to do list aside. We sit in a...
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Shana Ritter
- Oct 22, 2014
- 2 min
Once again….
Fall is leading into winter, The darkening comes earlier and stays later so that waking at 7 feels like it is still the middle of the...
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Shana Ritter
- Oct 8, 2014
- 1 min
Memory and Remembrance
shana ritter For the last half hour I have been looking up the differences between memory and remembrance. I still cannot quite clearly...
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Shana Ritter
- Oct 1, 2014
- 2 min
The Reading
Here’s what I love about giving a reading – it makes me look at my work in a different way. I search out themes and rhythms, timings,...
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Shana Ritter
- Sep 24, 2014
- 2 min
Honoring the New Year
At sundown this evening Rosh Hashanah begins. Over the last five years I’ve given time in the preceding weeks to puzzling out how I want...
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Shana Ritter
- Aug 1, 2014
- 1 min
The words we read
Yesterday I was telling a friend about The Faraway Nearby, by Rebecca Solnit. The language is so rich and the content so layered that it...
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