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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....

When Love Itself Seems to Die

by Sheila Collins | Oct 6, 2022 | Dances, Duality, Family, Grieving, social justice, Women, Girls & the Feminine

This month is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. National efforts to raise awareness of spousal, domestic, and dating violence began in 1987, though my awareness of this issue began in the early 80s. A woman professor, a mentor of mine, and a woman I very much admired...

Grieving Personal Losses and Those in our Cultural Body

by Sheila Collins | Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Duality, Environment, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, History, Personal Stories, social justice, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body, Women, Girls & the Feminine

The 8 x 8 ft POD was dropped off in my Pittsburgh driveway early Friday morning. Filled to the brim with what I had deemed essential “treasures,” from the California house we were selling, I knew the drill. We had till Monday to empty the container and find a place...

Finding Something to Do

by Sheila Collins | Jun 2, 2022 | Art & Life, Community, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, Institutional Loss, Our Children, School Shootings, social justice, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body

We’re at the grocery store, we’re on our way to pick the kids up at school, we’re at the doctor’s office waiting for an appointment– and because we carry a device that keeps us up-to-the-minute on whatever is happening anywhere in the country, we get the news. “Not...

The Art of Communal Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Apr 14, 2022 | Art & Life, Community, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, History, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, social justice, Women, Girls & the Feminine

We’re traveling in a tiny green bug of a car–my nine-year-old granddaughter Krya, my best friend Pam from Pittsburgh and me. Hoping to avoid damage and a fine from the car rental company, we creep slowly over an uneven, sandy, rocky trail of a road in the Morongo...

Learning from Loss

by Sheila Collins | Nov 12, 2020 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Family, History, Personal Stories, social justice, Uncategorized

My brother called me Sunday morning from his home in New Mexico. “I’m just checking in to see how you’re doing after the election,” he said in a cheerful voice. I was delighted to hear from him, and since we hadn’t spoken in months, I realized he might not know for...

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