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Our Historical Memories

by Sheila Collins | Jul 8, 2020 | Community, History, Past Events, social justice

My husband and I consider ourselves “history buffs,” so during our time at home during the pandemic we’ve been delving into a rich menu of offerings of historically themed documentaries and dramas. We began with several series on the British Royal Family which offered...

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...

Justice Long Denied is Hard Won

by Sheila Collins | Jun 3, 2020 | Art & Life, Community, Gatherings, Past Events, Personal Stories, social justice

It was dusk on a spring evening in 1967 in Detroit Michigan. Our then five-year-old daughter Corinne, who’d been playing with a neighbor girl in the front yard raced around to the back of our house shouting, “Mommy, Daddy, we have to stay inside our houses. There’s a...

Revisiting The Power of Anniversaries

by Sheila Collins | Oct 30, 2019 | Art & Life, Good Will Come, Grieving, Institutional Loss, Past Events, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Self-Care for Caregivers, social justice, Spirtuality, The Art of Grieving

When I awoke last Sunday morning I knew it was the day – the one year anniversary of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in my hometown of Pittsburgh PA. Eleven people lost their lives and several others were seriously injured in the worst...

Anniversaries

by Sheila Collins | Aug 22, 2019 | Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Self-Care, social justice, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Four friends and I were headed back to Pittsburgh from the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, an 11-hour car trip. We were full of stories to share from our four days at the leaders’ retreat of our national InterPlay organization. Since this day was also the...

To What Life Do These Losses Call Us?

by Sheila Collins | Aug 8, 2019 | Grieving, Personal Stories, Resilience, School Shootings, social justice, The Art of Grieving

In a discussion of grief and loss with a group of nuns one sister contributed the question “To what life do our many losses call us? Sisters are well versed on loss. They recognize death is inevitable and funerals become more frequent as one grows...

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