Duality | Sheila Collins

Are we willing to mourn?

by Sheila Collins | Apr 27, 2023 | Community, Dances, Duality, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, History, School Shootings, social justice, Songs, The Art of Grieving

Seven-year-old Daniel Barden’s father Mark came on ahead of the video I was trying to pull up this morning. I’ve seen him often though these past 11 years since his son was one of the 20 children killed when a 20-year-old with an assault-style weapon began shooting at...

What Singer/Songwriters Teach Us about Relationship Break Ups

by Sheila Collins | Apr 12, 2023 | Dances, Duality, Grieving, Resilience, The Art of Grieving

Partnerships, friendships, particularly romantic relationships and marriages, sometimes need to end. Mutually coming to that determination is rare, but through the years pop and country songs have provided some wisdom for our grieving. In 1960, Neil Sedaka made...

Grief Is Not Depression. It’s an Honoring of Sorrow. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman Shows Us the Difference.

by Sheila Collins | Apr 6, 2023 | Duality, Health, Health and Wellness, Noteworthy men, Resilience, Self-Care, The Art of Grieving

The field trip I organized last Saturday to visit artist Amanda Filippelli’s public art installation, The Remembering Room had fewer participants than expected. The exhibit space was designed by the artist as a way of honoring and grieving the loss of her father a...

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...

Companioning Others As They Grieve

by Sheila Collins | Feb 2, 2023 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

While at a national conference a few years ago I learned that a young colleague had been diagnosed with breast cancer. I sought her out to offer my sympathy and support and I am still embarrassed by how poorly what I said accomplished that. Fortunately, she told me...

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