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The Art of Grieving Domestic Violence

by Sheila Collins | Oct 24, 2024 | Community, Duality, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Resilience, Self-Care

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so designated as such in 1987. In the nearly 40 years since congress passed Public Law 101-112 officially designating October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, hopefully we have become more aware as a culture...

Anticipatory Grief – How can it work for us?

by Sheila Collins | Sep 26, 2024 | Art & Life, Community, Dances, Environment, Health and Wellness, ReImagine, Technology, the Big Body

Not sure when it started, but it feels like once I left home in my late teens, I always had the fear of becoming a bag lady. And when I’ve shared this fear with women friends of my generation, they admit that they too experienced this anticipatory grief throughout...

Transforming Grief and Rage into Courage and Action

by Sheila Collins | Sep 12, 2024 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Community, Environment, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Publications, Resilience, Rituals, social justice

It’s been 23 years since four Islamist terrorists, members of al-Qaeda, engaged in coordinated suicide attacks against the United States in 2001. At 8:14 am EDT on that morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the East Coast...

Memory and Meaning at The Election Time

by Sheila Collins | Aug 22, 2024 | Community, Environment, Gatherings, History, Personal Stories, social justice, the Big Body

Election Day 2024 in the United States is just a little more than 2 months away. Unfortunately, this fact is not of equal importance to all our citizens. Many people want no part of the hyperactive every four years campaigns to influence election outcomes. Despite the...

The Art of Collaboration in Art

by Sheila Collins | Jul 11, 2024 | Celebrations, Community, Environment, Gatherings, Noteworthy men, Personal Stories

The headlines tout the value of the not-to-be-missed art exhibit, “Pittsburgh Meets New York at The Frick Art Museum.” The Frick is smaller than the Carnegie, built on the property of the Frick family home where they lived before moving to New York. The purchases for...

Summer Solstice and the Anticipatory Grief of Climate Change

by Sheila Collins | Jun 20, 2024 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, Publications, Science, Technology and the Environment, Stillpoint, The Art of Grieving

Our relationship to time and temperature makes the June Summer Solstice date a special one to note In the Northern Hemisphere. Dark, drab winter days are being replaced by more days of bright sunshine and longer daylight hours. As trees bud out and the storms of...

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The Art of Grieving Domestic Violence

Anticipatory Grief – How can it work for us?

The Art of Collaboration in Art

Summer Solstice and the Anticipatory Grief of Climate Change

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