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Vocal Play

by Sheila Collins | Apr 1, 2021 | Art & Life, Community, Environment, Family, Improvisation, Personal Stories, Play, Songs

We’re in the family car, most likely a basic Ford, Chevy, or Plymouth. Dad’s company alternated every three years purchasing one of the three economy brands. The trip is long enough that one or another of us four kids have asked the question, “Are we there yet? We...

Keep Going, Keep Going On

by Sheila Collins | Feb 18, 2021 | Dances, Family, Gatherings, Improvisation, Self-Care, Songs

Here we are close to the 1st anniversary of when the world as we knew it shut down. When we first sheltered in place, or quarantined, or locked down, or moved in with relatives, whatever we called it at that point–we thought it would be for (fill in the blanks) tops....

Me, We and Our Shadows

by Sheila Collins | Dec 30, 2020 | Art & Life, Family, Personal Stories, Songs

Cleaning my workspace the other morning a line from a song kept playing on a loop in my inner ear, “Me and my shadow, all alone and feeling blue.” After a bit I began singing the line out loud and a second line came, “Me and my shadow, not a soul to tell our troubles...

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...

How Do You Self-Care?

by Sheila Collins | Aug 23, 2018 | Book Excerpts, book promotion, Dances, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Play, Poems, Self-Care for Caregivers, Songs, Stillpoint, Story-telling, Writing

When I wrote the first version of my book on self-care 25 years ago the big issue around self-care, especially for women, was giving ourselves permission to do it. Wasn’t it selfish to focus on ourselves? Wasn’t the goal to forget about ourselves and selflessly serve...

Music for Whiling Away the Miles

by Sheila Collins | Aug 21, 2014 | Songs

Finally a rainy morning where I can lounge a bit in my version of the universal writer’s uniform, my pajamas. The past ten days have been relentlessly busy with mostly all good things, but going the speed of the body means at this point, some stationary down time. In...

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