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Why Pride Parades are Good for Our Communities’ Mental Health

by Sheila Collins | May 31, 2023 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Community, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, History, Our Children, Personal Stories

On a return flight to Pittsburgh earlier this week I listened again to the audio version of my now 10-year-old memoir, Warrior Mother, Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss, and Rituals that Heal. This refreshed my memory of what a struggle my youngest son Ken had with...

What’s Ecstasy have to do with Grief?

by Sheila Collins | May 25, 2023 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Christianity, Community, Family, Gatherings, History, Our Children, Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

In this spring season of graduations my husband and I are just back from what we called our “memory lane” motor tour–12 hours driving time each way to Springfield MO. for our granddaughter Vitoria’s graduation with a PhD in Physical Therapy. Turns out there...

The Beach’s Life Lessons on the Art of Grieving

by Sheila Collins | May 4, 2023 | Celebrations, Environment, Gatherings, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Play

My friend Rose lived in landlocked Nebraska, but every six months or so, when the responsibilities of work and family would get to her, she’d head for the beach near Corpus Christi. When I was no longer a neighbor and had moved to Fort Worth Texas, she’s drive...

The Remembering Rooms

by Sheila Collins | Mar 23, 2023 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Celebrations, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, History, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Stillpoint, Story-telling, Women, Girls & the Feminine

It was a Saturday, the first in a long time, when I wasn’t out of town, or too tightly scheduled to consider a variation in the day’s routine. I put the regional newspaper in the front seat of my car when I left for my exercise class, thinking that, after class I’d...

Celebrating A Life

by Sheila Collins | Mar 16, 2023 | Celebrations, Community, Dances, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Our Children, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving, Writing

It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon in Newport Oregon and the “comfortable, modern lobby” of the Holiday Inn Express is uncharacteristically busy. The printer/copy machine has been in continual operation for a while as three 20 something young people, and what appears to...

Grief and the Season of Lent

by Sheila Collins | Feb 23, 2023 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Christianity, Community, Family, Gatherings

Last Wednesday was known as Ash Wednesday to Christians familiar with its rituals. Ashes are created by burning the palms used in the prior Sunday’s celebration of Jesus’s triumphant arrival in Jerusalem at the height of his acceptance in his own community. Words from...

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Why Pride Parades are Good for Our Communities’ Mental Health

What’s Ecstasy have to do with Grief?

The Beach’s Life Lessons on the Art of Grieving

The Remembering Rooms

Celebrating A Life

Grief and the Season of Lent

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