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Shana Ritter
Nov 7, 20132 min read
Late Fall Morning Walk
This morning the sun was brilliant and while the ground was still soaked with yesterday’s all day rain the clear bright sky beckoned me...
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Shana Ritter
Oct 31, 20131 min read
“Stories are geography”
“Stories are geography” – from Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby If I make a map of you I would trace the lines on your face to...
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Shana Ritter
Oct 17, 20132 min read
At the desk…….
Funny, how the fall colors of the trees seem so much richer against the graying sky. It rained all morning and I was glad for a reason to...
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Shana Ritter
Oct 10, 20132 min read
The Complexity of Truth
History is relayed through the perspective of the historian. The older the history the more rare it is to find a direct telling of it,...
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Shana Ritter
Oct 4, 20131 min read
There is a myth of time
There is a myth of time, of seasons progressing, of things moving forward. Take today. Over the years I have become convinced that toward...
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Shana Ritter
Sep 26, 20131 min read
just a bit discordant
M. described it perfectly when she said “you are living your life just one inch to the side of where you want to be. ” One moment that...
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Shana Ritter
Sep 19, 20131 min read
A Small Epiphany
I hadn’t submitted anything to the last issue of Rattle, the theme of single parenthood didn’t apply to me. At least that’s what I...
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Shana Ritter
Sep 11, 20131 min read
Preludes
I can see the first changes of colors in the trees. I started spotting single leaves two weeks ago, a drop of gold here, a reddish brown...
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Shana Ritter
Sep 6, 20131 min read
TESHUVAH
We are in the days of awe at the turning of the year. I am not observant in the traditional sense, I don’t often go to temple, I don’t...
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Shana Ritter
Aug 29, 20131 min read
Turnings
It is the last week of August and in the midst of first real heat wave we have had all summer my thoughts are turning to coming the new...
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Shana Ritter
Aug 20, 20131 min read
The creek bed of my childhood…..
The creek bed of my childhood…...
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