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Creating Our Reality?

by Sheila Collins | May 21, 2012 | the Big Body

I have found it more than a little annoying when people would say, “we create our own reality.” When my daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years ago, this expression became especially insulting and hurtful. Who, in or out of their right mind, would create...

Working Birds

by Sheila Collins | May 15, 2012 | Art & Life, Environment, Personal Stories

I don’t think of birds as workers. Bees perhaps, “worker bees,” but birds? When I went to close my front door the other morning after walking through it on my way to take my dog for his morning constitutional, I gasped in surprise. There in the small space between the...

Does Dancing With Everything Include Poison Ivy?

by Sheila Collins | May 6, 2012 | Environment, Health and Wellness

In celebration of Earth Day, I joined the Friends of the River last Sunday, for a neighborhood planting and clean up of the river trail by my house. On such a beautiful sunny day it felt good to be outside playing in the dirt. I had so much fun that in the afternoon...

Spring Cleaning

by Sheila Collins | May 3, 2012 | Personal Stories

When we used to have long harsh winters, the impulse in the first days of spring was to open the windows and doors and let the house breathe some fresh air. I remember when the women of the house would pull the linens off the beds, and the curtains off the windows,...

Learn the Many, Magical Ways Art Transforms Grieving!

(No art skills required.)

Loss is inevitable, yet too often we bury our grief, pretending we're OK when we're not.

In my new book (COMING SOON), I'll share some uncommon notions about grief and how the arts, and art-making, have transformative powers that take us to the heart of the matter.

Creating Our Reality?

Working Birds

Does Dancing With Everything Include Poison Ivy?

Spring Cleaning

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