Women, Girls & the Feminine

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...

The Art of Grieving: Children’s Edition

by Sheila Collins | May 19, 2022 | Art & Life, Family, Grieving, Our Children, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

As she leads me through the design part of the process, she finally decides to open the package so I can see how one of the bracelets looks in its finished form. “You can put a word or name in the center if you have enough letters,” she says, and I see that she has...

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...

Where do we go from here?

by Sheila Collins | Feb 2, 2022 | Art & Life, Community, Family, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, Personal Stories, Resilience, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Even if you don’t live in Pittsburgh, you might know about the bridge over a ravine that collapsed this week. It happened early the morning that President Biden was scheduled to come to Pittsburgh to talk about the importance of his infrastructure bill. Fortunately,...

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...

An Athlete Demonstrates a New Growing Edge

by Sheila Collins | Aug 4, 2021 | Community, Environment, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, Olympics, Our Children, Self-Care, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

August is Grief Awareness Month and we’ve all just gotten an unexpected lesson in what a good grief process can be. Grief is the natural reaction to loss, and during the 2020 postponed Olympics, the much-heralded athlete Simone Biles was experiencing a major loss. Her...

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The Installation – Reckoning: Grief and Light

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