Environment | Sheila Collins

Does Dancing With Everything Include Poison Ivy?

by Sheila Collins | May 6, 2012 | Environment, Health and Wellness

In celebration of Earth Day, I joined the Friends of the River last Sunday, for a neighborhood planting and clean up of the river trail by my house. On such a beautiful sunny day it felt good to be outside playing in the dirt. I had so much fun that in the afternoon...

Activist Art Shows The Way

by Sheila Collins | Dec 15, 2011 | Art & Life, Environment, Technology

After reading Mary Thomas’s excellent article about the Pittsburgh Biennial activist art segment at CMU, I was disappointed it wouldn’t be staying around longer. After seeing the exhibit on the last day, I felt more disappointed it wasn’t staying around so I could...

Let’s Hear It For a Quieter Merry Season

by Sheila Collins | Dec 8, 2011 | Environment, Personal Stories

Before I go any further, in the interest of full disclosure, I don’t have a wreath on my front door yet. Unlike my neighbors, there are no lights or other decorations on the front of our house, and I’m not planning to buy and decorate a tree. (Even if I were, it...

Snake Medicine

by Sheila Collins | Jul 4, 2011 | Environment, Personal Stories

According to my husband, and the picture he took to document the event, our back yard was visited recently by a large snake.. The picture shows a grey-patterned black snake sunning himself on top of our air conditioner. I felt repulsed initially, but later I began...

A tribute to indigenous wisdom keepers

by Sheila Collins | Jun 2, 2011 | Environment, Gatherings

It’s difficult to see the patterns when you are too close and personal with your own life. But standing back, with the perspective of time, themes and variations emerge and stand out. One of mine is a connection to indigenous people. In the 1970s I had a job...

Weather

by Sheila Collins | Feb 21, 2011 | Environment, Personal Stories

While a good section of the country was being pummeled by freezing rain and one-two- punch snow storms, and people from the northeast and mid-west were dealing with power outages and frozen water pipes, Rich and I traveled to warm, (if not always sunny), Florida. A...

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Does Dancing With Everything Include Poison Ivy?

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