Science, Technology and the Environment

The Installation – Reckoning: Grief and Light

by Sheila Collins | Dec 16, 2021 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Environment, History, Personal Stories, Science, Technology and the Environment, the Big Body, Women, Girls & the Feminine

I missed the announcement of the spring opening, or maybe there wasn’t one given Covid restrictions, so it took me awhile to get myself to the Frick Museum to experience Vanessa German’s installation, Reckoning; Grief and Light. I was drawn first by the artist, an...

A Vocabulary for Unprecedented Times

by Sheila Collins | Sep 24, 2020 | Art & Life, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Resilience, Science, Technology and the Environment

It’s been six months now since the Covid19 pandemic shut down the world as we knew it. In the U.S. 200,00 people have died, worldwide we are nearing 1 million. Many died without the comfort and company of loved ones at their side. For loved ones, being excluded from...

Our Illusive Fitness Levels

by Sheila Collins | Sep 17, 2020 | Health, Health and Wellness, Resilience, Science, Technology and the Environment, Self-Care, Technology

I described it as a “hitch in my get-a-long,” this limping ouch that seemed to be calling to me recently from my left hip. My friend Christine, who just returned from traversing much of the country while seated in a car, mentioned she was lying on the floor during our...

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

by Sheila Collins | Jun 18, 2020 | Community, Dances, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Science, Technology and the Environment, Self-Care, Songs

Alice Walker said it best, in the title of her 2010 poetry book, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing. A friend texted me an image of the book’s cover the other day and reminded me of this beautiful work and its author, whom I’ve had the honor and pleasure of meeting...

A Grandmother’s Guide To Young Voters

by Sheila Collins | Nov 5, 2018 | Art & Life, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Resilience, School Shootings, Science, Technology and the Environment, social justice, Spirtuality, Uncategorized, Women, Girls & the Feminine

“Are you planning to vote?” my husband asked the young woman serving us in a neighborhood restaurant. The blank look on her face gave us the answer before she spoke. She went on to offer, perhaps in her own defense, the fact that none of her friends were voting...

A Grandmother Looks at Vaccinations

by Sheila Collins | Feb 17, 2015 | Health, Health and Wellness, Science, Technology and the Environment

In 1945, during the only semester I attended kindergarten, I brought back to my family’s household of four younger siblings, the three most common childhood diseases of that time; measles, mumps, and chicken pox. Luckily my mother was a nurse and knew how to take care...

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The Installation – Reckoning: Grief and Light

A Vocabulary for Unprecedented Times

Our Illusive Fitness Levels

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

A Grandmother Looks at Vaccinations

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