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    Still Thinking about Orlando
    Shana Ritter
    • Jun 30, 2016
    • 2 min

    Still Thinking about Orlando

    Driving up the road to the Smithville farmers market,  I wasn’t paying much attention to NPR morning edition until I heard that people in...
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    Solace
    Shana Ritter
    • Jun 16, 2016
    • 1 min

    Solace

    I am at the last class in a series of classes that began at the beginning of May. In this month and a half the northern hemisphere has...
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    Shana Ritter
    • Jun 10, 2016
    • 1 min

    Moving toward summer

    Each day the light lasts longer, stretching the day and shifting my sense of how to move through it. Already the memory of winter has...
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    Moving toward summer
    Shana Ritter
    • Jun 9, 2016
    • 1 min

    Moving toward summer

    Each day the light lasts longer, stretching the day and shifting my sense of how to move through it. Already the memory of winter has...
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    Shana Ritter
    • May 23, 2016
    • 1 min

    Convergences

    Sunday opened with sun and a range of possibilities; catch up on work, get a project done around the house, close the study door and...
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    Convergences
    Shana Ritter
    • May 23, 2016
    • 2 min

    Convergences

    Sunday opened with sun and a range of possibilities; catch up on work, get a project done around the house, close the study door and...
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    Shana Ritter
    • May 12, 2016
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Shana Ritter
    • May 12, 2016
    • 1 min

    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...
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    poetry
    Shana Ritter
    • Apr 8, 2016
    • 1 min

    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
    • Mar 31, 2016
    • 1 min

    Rejection…

    I am pushing against ennui. Trying not to fall toward entropy. Not succumb to the rejection pile: grants and poems, donation asks and...
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    Rejection…
    Shana Ritter
    • Mar 31, 2016
    • 1 min

    Rejection…

    I am pushing against ennui. Trying not to fall toward entropy. Not succumb to the rejection pile: grants and poems, donation asks and...
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    Shana Ritter
    • Mar 10, 2016
    • 2 min

    A balance of days

    We are at the precipice of changing seasons, where both what was and what will come are clear. A balance of days in the wider expanse of...
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    What I learned about being still
    Shana Ritter
    • Feb 25, 2016
    • 1 min

    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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    What I see
    Shana Ritter
    • Feb 17, 2016
    • 1 min

    What I see

    The outline of the trees reveal themselves, the lighting sky, the barn across the ravine that can only be seen in the winter months when...
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    Re-Vision Take 2
    Shana Ritter
    • Feb 10, 2016
    • 1 min

    Re-Vision Take 2

    I cant help but laugh a bit at the fact that I am in the first full revision of my novel at the same time my actual vision is being...
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    A Strange Intimacy
    Shana Ritter
    • Feb 5, 2016
    • 2 min

    A Strange Intimacy

    I am lying on the table in the upstairs surgical suite after hours. My eye is taped open, my other eye covered. I am staring into a...
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    Shana Ritter
    • Feb 1, 2016
    • 2 min

    Re – Vision

    On Wednesday I will have the first of two eye surgeries. I know it’s only cataracts, a common enough procedure these days. But a little...
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    Walking Labyrinths
    Shana Ritter
    • Jan 25, 2016
    • 2 min

    Walking Labyrinths

    This is my first post of 2016. After almost of a month of no entries I wasn’t sure if I would come back to blogging, or if I would leave...
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    Shana Ritter
    • Dec 21, 2015
    • 1 min

    Kid in a candy store

    I am sitting in the silent reading room at the library overlooking the main street on a dismal wet gray day. I am thinking it is a gift...
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    Shana Ritter
    • Dec 10, 2015
    • 1 min

    A little hope

    We are moving into the darkness but what I find there is warmth. The fire lit in the evenings, a pot of soup on the stove, a lengthening...
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