Resilience | Sheila Collins

Birds of a Feather – Let’s Flock Together

by Sheila Collins | Sep 3, 2020 | Art & Life, Community, Resilience

Attempting to have a quiet lunch on our back deck beside the Allegheny River today, my husband and I found it hard to ignore the ruckus dozens of birds were making. Red, yellow and brown birds were flying rapidly back and forth from tree to tree, changing directions...

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...

Our Friend Grief

by Sheila Collins | Aug 13, 2020 | Community, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, Resilience, The Art of Grieving

It’s been nearly five months since our usual, normal lives where highjacked by a pandemic. Illness and death have enveloped the globe, planned events were postponed, then cancelled. Millions of jobs have been lost and small businesses closed. Through the months,...

A Garden Remembers

by Sheila Collins | Jul 24, 2020 | Art & Life, Environment, Family, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Meditations, Personal Stories, Resilience, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, Spirtuality, Stillpoint, The Art of Grieving

I was having one of those down days. My sister is in a memory care center in the Boston area, so of course I hadn’t been able to see or talk to her for several months. I’d gotten an email about a meeting the staff was having for family members, but the notice came so...

The Unmasking of a Long-Standing Pandemic

by Sheila Collins | Jun 11, 2020 | Community, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, Resilience, social justice

Life as we had been living it had disappeared. Sports suspended, schools closed, jobs lost, and social gatherings, and travel, postponed indefinitely. Even beauty salon and barbershop appointments were off our then, mostly vacant calendars. Unless your job was one of...

The Art of Conscious Grieving

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2020 | Good Will Come, Grieving, Improvisation, Personal Stories, Resilience, Self-Care

There was a question that used to stump me when I met someone for the first time. The person would ask a common question, “How many children do you have? I’d then begin a search for the right answer, the answer that wouldn’t derail the conversation, that wouldn’t take...

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Birds of a Feather – Let’s Flock Together

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Our Friend Grief

A Garden Remembers

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