Art & Life | Sheila Collins

Thanksgiving and Covid19

by Sheila Collins | Nov 26, 2020 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Environment, Family, Gatherings, History, Our Children, Personal Stories, Rituals

It’s the day before Thanksgiving and I’m looking out my back-patio window at this morning’s rather muddy Allegheny River. The stillness I’m surveying matches a deep stillness in me, a gift Covid19 has granted me. It’s slowed me down these past nine months. It’s...

Learning from Loss

by Sheila Collins | Nov 12, 2020 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Family, History, Personal Stories, social justice, Uncategorized

My brother called me Sunday morning from his home in New Mexico. “I’m just checking in to see how you’re doing after the election,” he said in a cheerful voice. I was delighted to hear from him, and since we hadn’t spoken in months, I realized he might not know for...

Let’s Honor Tears

by Sheila Collins | Oct 29, 2020 | Art & Life, Community, Family, Grieving, Improvisation, Our Children, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

I’d always hear that in the Victorian era, children where to be “seen and not heard.” Since crying can be kind of noisy, I imagine there had to be ways to discourage it in young children. When my eight-year old granddaughter Kyra reintroduced me this week to Alice in...

Mourning Into Unity

by Sheila Collins | Oct 22, 2020 | Art & Life, Community, Duality

Here we are 12 days from one of the most dramatically divisive national elections in our nation’s history. One thing for sure, on November 4th or thereabouts, however it turns out, a lot of people will be in mourning. Like in a sports contest, only one side can win,...

This Too Shall Pass

by Sheila Collins | Oct 15, 2020 | Art & Life, Environment, Health, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Self-Care

We had a big outing Sunday. After dropping our completed ballots off at an official box on a nearby community college campus my husband and I headed for a forested hiking trail. Since the trees in Pennsylvania had begun their turning, I longed to be up close and...

2020 Sister Memories

by Sheila Collins | Oct 7, 2020 | Art & Life, Family, Health, Personal Stories

Looking at the clock on the kitchen wall, I check it with the digital one on the stove. They don’t agree so I look at my wristwatch and then decide the clock on my phone has to have the final say. But none of this will cause the phone call I’m waiting on to happen any...

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