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Gifts That Keep On Giving

by Sheila Collins | Jun 24, 2021 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Family, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Personal Stories, Resilience, Self-Care for Caregivers, Spirtuality, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

Last week, on the first day of summer known as the summer solstice, thoughts and memories of my youngest son, Kenneth were close at hand. Friends and family members know this day as the anniversary of Kenneth’s death from complications of AIDS at age 31. They send...

Crossing Over

by Sheila Collins | May 27, 2021 | Celebrations, Duality, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Personal Stories, Rituals, Self-Care for Caregivers, Songs, Spirtuality, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

Michael rowed the boat ashore, Alleluia, Sister helped to trim the sails Alleluia. Our living room has turned into the dying room. Friends linger after stopping by to bring flowers or drop off food. One tells me, “There’s so much love in this house. it’s hard to...

Love and Loss –The Pet Edition

by Sheila Collins | Apr 14, 2021 | Art & Life, Environment, Family, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, pets, Story-telling

It was the Saturday before Mother’s Day. I was 6 years old and my brother Miles was 4. He and I were pulling his red wagon around the neighborhood collecting newspapers for a school paper drive –a common activity of recycling and fundraising for schools of that day....

Thanksgiving and Covid19

by Sheila Collins | Nov 26, 2020 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Environment, Family, Gatherings, History, Our Children, Personal Stories, Rituals

It’s the day before Thanksgiving and I’m looking out my back-patio window at this morning’s rather muddy Allegheny River. The stillness I’m surveying matches a deep stillness in me, a gift Covid19 has granted me. It’s slowed me down these past nine months. It’s...

Let’s Honor Tears

by Sheila Collins | Oct 29, 2020 | Art & Life, Community, Family, Grieving, Improvisation, Our Children, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

I’d always hear that in the Victorian era, children where to be “seen and not heard.” Since crying can be kind of noisy, I imagine there had to be ways to discourage it in young children. When my eight-year old granddaughter Kyra reintroduced me this week to Alice in...

Time to Remember– Time to Act

by Sheila Collins | Aug 27, 2020 | Family, Grieving, Our Children, Personal Stories, Resilience, The Art of Grieving

Since last March whenever I shop online, I frequently get the message that the item I’ve selected is ‘on backorder’ or ‘currently unavailable.’ The grocery store runs out of my favorite teas fairly often and the particular type of eggs I prefer. I understand. It’s a...

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Gifts That Keep On Giving

Crossing Over

Love and Loss –The Pet Edition

Thanksgiving and Covid19

Let’s Honor Tears

Time to Remember– Time to Act

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