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The Beach’s Life Lessons on the Art of Grieving

by Sheila Collins | May 4, 2023 | Celebrations, Environment, Gatherings, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Play

My friend Rose lived in landlocked Nebraska, but every six months or so, when the responsibilities of work and family would get to her, she’d head for the beach near Corpus Christi. When I was no longer a neighbor and had moved to Fort Worth Texas, she’s drive...

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...

Celebrating A Life

by Sheila Collins | Mar 16, 2023 | Celebrations, Community, Dances, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Our Children, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving, Writing

It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon in Newport Oregon and the “comfortable, modern lobby” of the Holiday Inn Express is uncharacteristically busy. The printer/copy machine has been in continual operation for a while as three 20 something young people, and what appears to...

Mass Shootings and Support for Those That Grieve

by Sheila Collins | Feb 16, 2023 | Community, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, Institutional Loss, Our Children, School Shootings, The Art of Grieving

In my online classes with people from across the country and beyond it, I have participants check in by mentioning “What ‘s Up?” for them, what’s top-of-mind? Could be a snowstorm headed their way, celebratory feelings of a project going well, or a mishap that...

Caring and Not Caring

by Sheila Collins | Jan 26, 2023 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Personal Stories, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, Women, Girls & the Feminine

In a note from Glenda Taylor, the leader of the woman’s retreat I will be attending this weekend in Texas, she did something she’s done every season in the 32 years that I’ve been attending. She shared the topic– Care, Self-Care, Care for Others, Compassion,...

Hello 2023!

by Sheila Collins | Jan 5, 2023 | Art & Life, Duality, Environment, Gatherings, Personal Stories, ReImagine, Resilience, Stillpoint, Uncategorized, Women, Girls & the Feminine

I’ve been in the northern California Bay Area this week and a storm caused a slight delay in posting today’s message. High winds, torrential rain, flooding, downed trees, mud slides, and power outages are continuing to occur this morning. So, as I’m wishing you a...

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