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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...

What’s Love Got to Do with it? (grief)

by Sheila Collins | Feb 9, 2023 | Celebrations, Grieving, History, Past Events, The Art of Grieving

Valentine’s Day, the one day on our yearly calendar set aside to mark and express the emotion of love has been celebrated for over 1500 years. Begun by the church to replace a February fertility festival, the feast of St. Valentine honors the brave monk who defied the...

Lessons on the Art of Grieving from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

by Sheila Collins | Jan 18, 2023 | Art & Life, Family, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, History

Unless you’ve been on a total media vacation this past month, you’ve most likely read, seen, or heard of Prince Harry’s recently released memoir, Spare. The media blitz of book reviews, podcasts, interviews on Good Morning America and 60 minutes, preceded by a...

Indigenous Wisdom on Gratitude

by Sheila Collins | Nov 24, 2022 | Celebrations, Community, Family, Gatherings, History, Past Events, Personal Stories

In the version we like to tell of the story of the first Thanksgiving, the settlers, and the native people, sat down together to a shared harvest feast. Putting aside whatever differences and misunderstandings they might have had, they expressed gratitude for...

Doing Love Out Loud

by Sheila Collins | Oct 27, 2022 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, History, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, ReImagine, Resilience, social justice, the Big Body

Today is the 4th anniversary of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in my hometown, Pittsburgh, PA. Eleven people were murdered in their house of worship, impacting hundreds and thousands of others in their families, neighborhoods, towns, and countries....

Pre-Election Anticipatory Grief in the Big Social Body

by Sheila Collins | Oct 20, 2022 | Community, Duality, Environment, History, Our Children, the Big Body

My phone’s text messaging function has never been so busy. Some messages start with an apology– “I know we text you a LOT, but we wouldn’t if it wasn’t SO important.” The tone of others sound like the sky is falling–“the fate of our senate majority rests in PA” or”...

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The Remembering Rooms

What’s Love Got to Do with it? (grief)

Lessons on the Art of Grieving from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Indigenous Wisdom on Gratitude

Pre-Election Anticipatory Grief in the Big Social Body

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