Shana Ritter
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, 20141 min read
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, 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...
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Shana Ritter
Oct 29, 20142 min read
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, 20142 min read
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, 20141 min read
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 8, 20142 min read
Memory and Remembrance
For the last half hour I have been looking up the differences between memory and remembrance. I still cannot quite clearly articulate it....
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Shana Ritter
Oct 1, 20142 min read
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, 20142 min read
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
Sep 4, 20142 min read
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...
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Shana Ritter
Aug 21, 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 ...
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Shana Ritter
Aug 7, 20141 min read
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...
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Shana Ritter
Aug 1, 20141 min read
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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Shana Ritter
Jul 24, 20141 min read
Art & War
How often I have wished that what I crafted were notes and melodies – my voice moving through measures. Or, a stroke across a surface,...
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Shana Ritter
Jul 17, 20142 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...
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