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A Healing Ritual at Serpent Mound

by Sheila Collins | May 7, 2013 | Art & Life, Dances, Grieving, Songs, Spirtuality

It was a trek, as all spiritual journeys are, with five of us traveling six hours from Pittsburgh in my SUV. The Serpent Mound is in southern Ohio, not far from Cincinnati and my friend Vikki Hanchin’s recent book, The Seer and the Sayer...

The Dance of Flexibility

by Sheila Collins | Apr 27, 2013 | Health and Wellness, Story-telling

Until a month ago, if you’d asked me if I consider myself a flexible person I would have said yes. In face, on some occasions I may have been too flexible, putting up with things longer than I probably should have. But there’s nothing like a construction project in...

Does Dancing Make You Smarter?

by Sheila Collins | Apr 15, 2013 | Art & Life, Dances, Health, Health and Wellness

My friend Jim was a good son. A professor of religion at the university where we both worked, he was in his early 60’s. His mother Margaret was a widow in her early 80’s who loved to dance so Jim took her ballroom dancing twice a month. Jim’s wife was a nurse who...

Children & the Stories Elders Tell

by Sheila Collins | Apr 1, 2013 | Art & Life, Story-telling

“That happened in the olden days,” my children would tell me. Their dismissive tone indicated they didn’t see any relevance to what I was relaying about the past and what they were experiencing in the present. I, on the other hand, have always been curious about “the...

What Was That Little Bird Trying To Say?

by Sheila Collins | Mar 12, 2013 | Environment

On a recent March afternoon, when the seemingly relentless winter took a brief respite, I was sitting at my computer by the window, grateful to finally see the sun. A brilliant red male cardinal began tapping on the window and peering into the dining room. It seemed...

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A Healing Ritual at Serpent Mound

The Dance of Flexibility

Does Dancing Make You Smarter?

Children & the Stories Elders Tell

What Was That Little Bird Trying To Say?

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