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Grieving Personal Losses and Those in our Cultural Body

by Sheila Collins | Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Duality, Environment, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, History, Personal Stories, social justice, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body, Women, Girls & the Feminine

The 8 x 8 ft POD was dropped off in my Pittsburgh driveway early Friday morning. Filled to the brim with what I had deemed essential “treasures,” from the California house we were selling, I knew the drill. We had till Monday to empty the container and find a place...

The Art of Dancing Grief

by Sheila Collins | Jun 23, 2022 | Art & Life, Community, Dances, Family, Grieving, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving

My fellow InterPlay improv artists and I often play with individual and cultural challenging topics–grief and sorrow, love and loss, violence, and racism, and putting an ending to them. Using a system rooted in dance, our individual and collective expression comes...

Finding Something to Do

by Sheila Collins | Jun 2, 2022 | Art & Life, Community, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, Institutional Loss, Our Children, School Shootings, social justice, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body

We’re at the grocery store, we’re on our way to pick the kids up at school, we’re at the doctor’s office waiting for an appointment– and because we carry a device that keeps us up-to-the-minute on whatever is happening anywhere in the country, we get the news. “Not...

Grief by the Numbers

by Sheila Collins | May 26, 2022 | Community, Environment, Family, Grieving, History, Past Events, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body

Visiting family in our nation’s capital over the weekend, we took some time to visit the Vietnam Memorial. We walked the concrete path alongside the black granite wall that honors the United States men and women who served in that 20-year war and lost their...

The Art of Communal Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Apr 14, 2022 | Art & Life, Community, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, History, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, social justice, Women, Girls & the Feminine

We’re traveling in a tiny green bug of a car–my nine-year-old granddaughter Krya, my best friend Pam from Pittsburgh and me. Hoping to avoid damage and a fine from the car rental company, we creep slowly over an uneven, sandy, rocky trail of a road in the Morongo...

Grief and the Great Resignation

by Sheila Collins | Apr 7, 2022 | Community, Duality, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body

This morning at the hospital, as I was being prepped for my second cataract surgery the nurse asked me, “Are you getting your surgeries in before your doctor retires? When I nodded yes, she said, “We’re sure gonna miss her around here.” Several months ago, when my...

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