Comments for Sheila K. Collins

Comment on Dancing With Death by Sheila

Sheila — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:15:59 +0000

Thanks so much for your comment. It’s great to be in touch in this way. Hope all is well with you. Sheila

Comment on Dancing With Death by Lisa Laing

Lisa Laing — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:44:22 +0000

Your words resonate and ring true. It is a difficult subject to write so clearly and gently about. Thank you, Sheila.

Comment on Dancing With Death by Sheila

Sheila — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:09:31 +0000

Good to hear from you, you who know about all of this from your own experience. I trust your life is going well and that you are enjoying the pictures of your granddaughter.

Comment on Dancing With Death by George

George — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:47:17 +0000

Beautifully stated.

Comment on Children & the Stories Elders Tell by Linda VanBlaricom

Linda VanBlaricom — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:14:57 +0000

Sheila- I agree and appreciate your sharing. I am also thinking that the same benefit might accrue to cities, states, countries, worlds. If we could teach history in a way that was exciting and not just focused on our civil war, wwI, wwII, etc., in the case of the U.S.., we might have healthier and more stable societies. Howard Zinn has done a great job with this and I am sure there are others. I am 63 and when I was in school, the history was largely boring and not useful in terms of helping me see my connection to the larger world.

Comment on Is The Story True? by Nancy Banman

Nancy Banman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:34:23 +0000

Thank you for this reflection on truth and perspective. I’ll be sharing it with my social work colleagues and students. So important to remember that our stories change as we learn to live with them and the lessons we take from the experiences. So important to remember there are more than one perspective and story from shared experiences.

Comment on When Things Go Wrong by Christine G.

Christine G. — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:14:18 +0000

Big (((hugs))) from Georgia my friend – love you!

Comment on Is The Story True? by Celia Swanson

Celia Swanson — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:01:12 +0000

One of my favorite books of all time, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, has as one of its core themes the distinction between “fact” and “truth”.

“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
― Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried

“And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried

If you’ve never read this remarkable book, I encourage you to seek it out.

Comment on The Path of a Warrior Mother by Christine G

Christine G — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:39:09 +0000

So looking forward to reading your book! As always your courage and grace amaze and inspire me. Love you!

Comment on Birthing Our Dream by Charles Yates, LCSW

Charles Yates, LCSW — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:37:12 +0000

Sounds a lot like what we are up to.

Breathe, balance, dance,play.