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Vacations and Holidays

by Sheila Collins | Aug 2, 2017 | Art & Life, Environment, Personal Stories, Story-telling

“What is the purpose of your visit?” the English customs officer asked as we approached his window 20 plus years ago on our first visit to Europe. “We’re on vacation,” we said.“Oh, on holiday,” he corrected us. I’m not sure I know the difference between the two even...

Life Lessons From the Forest

by Sheila Collins | Apr 15, 2017 | Environment, Health and Wellness, Spirtuality

This city girl, just back from my yearly spring visit to the Piney Woods of East Texas and my women’s spirituality group retreat, has been re-reminded of the wisdom and life lessons inherent in connecting with nature and the natural world. It’s helpful to...

Tis the Season

by Sheila Collins | Dec 17, 2014 | Environment, Grieving, Personal Stories

The view from my window this December morning, just after first light, announces a foggy grey day. Streetlights and car headlights from across the river are the only signs of life in the stark landscape. The lawn and shrubbery are the clear winners as a steady rain...

Eggs

by Sheila Collins | Apr 24, 2014 | Environment, Story-telling

My focus on eggs started with the picture my daughter-in-law sent of my twenty month-old granddaughter, Kyra Joy. She’s outfitted in a pink princess-like dress and tiny white shoes. She’s standing in a park in the high desert of California to participate in her first...

Sacred Water

by Sheila Collins | Mar 14, 2014 | Environment, Rituals, Spirtuality, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Walking on the beach this morning on the Florida shore of the Gulf of Mexico my husband and I agreed that we’re both water people. For more than twenty years we’d walked the beach on Padre Island, three seasons of the year. Before that, in spring times we’d strolled...

Dance of Destruction: A Response

by Sheila Collins | Jul 10, 2013 | Environment, Rituals, Story-telling

A particular pleasure in the early morning hours, when I visit my family in the high desert of California, is to walk the labyrinth my son and daughter-in-law built in their desert-landscaped backyard. I didn’t see the space before they began what must have been a...

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