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December 19, 2022

Sanibel, Florida House Portrait Commission

December 19, 2022
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Commissions and Client Comments, Uncategorized

This finished house portrait is of a Florida home recently sold, and the recipient of this Christmas keepsake is in Colorado. Thinking about the temp differences between the two locations this time of year! If you would like to commission a house portrait in 2023, please Contact Me with the details and we can begin the discussion. Merry Christmas! The joy I feel when clients communicate their feelings about my work and how gifts were received brings such meaning to...

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The Transgender Religion: From Relational Control to Dispensation of Existence

December 17, 2022
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I am gripped with heavy, heavy sorrow – gripped with remorse. I am gripped with not only remorse, but I am gripped with fear. I am gripped with fear because I fear my son is gone. As I continue to apprehend the depth of the evil that has overcome my family, I discover new levels of the horror of it all. And there is nothing, seemingly, that I can do to fix it. May God have mercy. And I don’t...

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Glitter Moms, Sanctuary States and Irreparable Harm

December 17, 2022
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

In mid-April of this past year, a family member sent me a DM with a photo of my son and his partner, standing together and holding an ultrasound announcing they were to be the parents of twins. She even joked along the lines of “lol” is this April fools? I had already received the difficult news the day before from a sensitive, true and caring person in my life concerning the news that not only was I going to be...

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Created With Love

December 15, 2022
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Commissions and Client Comments

Some days it is the kind words of a customer that makes all the difficulties of that which I do seem worth it. Today, in juxtaposition of what seemed to me to be less-than-kind words in another situation was the recollection of yesterday’s message from this client. As I went to Hobby Lobby tonight to get a box, some paint brushes for another project, and cat food at Walmart, I was thinking upon many things. This order came in November...

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In 1971, I Wrote a Somewhat Rude Letter to Santa

December 15, 2022
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

In 1971, I wrote a somewhat rude letter to Santa and had the audacity to sign the thing “love.” I mean, how could I love Santa–a man I barely knew? Yet I called him by his first name (omitting the Claus), signed it with my full name, and took a wild guess at his address. What appears so rude to me is that I omitted small talk and didn’t say please, nor did I acknowledge his past efforts on my...

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Mountain Daisies of West Virginia

December 7, 2022
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Artwork For Sale, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Uncategorized, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

In July of this year I took a trip to my mother’s hometown of Buckhannon, West Virginia. It was a personal pilgrimage of sorts. I had only been to Buckhannon once (and very briefly) during the summer of 1978. That was the summer between my father’s retirement in 1977 after working over forty years with the Soil Conservation Service in Elkton, MD, and his death in May 1979. We had gone from the annual Slifer family reunion in Boonsboro, MD...

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Framed 24 x 34 Inch Dried Flower Creation Raffle

December 6, 2022
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Artwork For Sale

This Dried Flower Creation is available by RAFFLE – or, by direct sale. 24 x 34 inch framed I need 100 entries at $5 each to pick a winner. Since shipping/destination unknown, I ask that the winner cover the cost, once known (estimate could be $50 to $100 depending on boxed weight, etc). Asking price for direct sale is $500, plus shipping. I am doing the raffle concurrent with “if directly sold” price. Since I plan to keep creating similar...

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Playing Along With Fiction and Calling it “Gender Care”

December 5, 2022
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Religion, Politics and Current Events

Once upon a time, for reasons we are still uncovering, an ancient society convinced a large number of people to believe a narrative of fiction — even calling it scientifically-based — through a heavy veil of linguistic machinations. It was demonically brilliant, and, we complied. To our own destruction and that of our children’s children, we complied. ~ Imagine that ~ They say truth is stranger than fiction. Last night I came across an interview I find worthy of passing...

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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