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Darling Little California House – Watercolor Portrait

This house portrait was commissioned by a client who had recently sold her and her husband’s first home in California and were moving back to their home state of New Jersey. Having visited California a small handful of times, I called it the “Darling Little California House” since I’m aware that houses in that west coast area can be quite cute but not as spacious as those in other parts of the country! Below is a demonstration video put together...

Podcast and Book Link: “Jesus and John Wayne”

​Taking a brief moment to link a good podcast by Lee Camp I just listened to featuring a talk with Kristin Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.The title/topic caught my eye as I have listened to this audiobook back around January 2021.  Last August 2020 I had added a piece here called The Enthusiastic Election of the Embodiment of All Seven Deadly Sins which was my expressed view at that time and...

The Rubik’s Cube of Divorce

​​I once sat with a trusted clergyperson and touched upon various things from my first failed marriage. I said to them, like I have said at times to a few other people:Divorce is like a Rubik’s cube you cannot solve. You just keep turning and turning over all the various parts – where did this go wrong – what if I hadn’t married this person – then I wouldn’t have my children – what if this?…what if that?…did I fail...

You Came To Me

The following is a writing (with accompanying artwork above) that I did in December 2018 and want to share on the 42nd anniversary of my father’s death. ​​ YOU CAME TO ME Daddy I saw you in a dream once. It was dark and there was a tree in the far distance that was illuminated. You were under the tree clutching your chest and I knew you were having your heart attack. I ran to you like I do every...

WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU, ANYWAYS!!!!! (Part I?)

Disclaimer:  The names contained herein have been changed,​to protect the innocent, the very very very innocent! They will only be lovingly referred to as: OFFSPRING #1and OFFSPRING #2Please proceed…with tender caution! ​The room was half-darkened late that night as I sat dialoguing with my first-born male Offspring#1, and his female friend… She turned to my first-born male Offspring #1 and said:“What do you love the most about your mother?” I froze inside. From a 10-foot distance I locked my piercing blue...

Considering the Birds in One Thousand Words

This morning I began my daily routine of brewing coffee and looking out my patio door watching birds come and go from my feeder.  I remembered once again a written expression I had intended to form several months ago. I remembered making a brief comment online in January that I planned to write about birds that day – after Facebook brought up a memory from the previous January 2020 where I photographed my feet in black socks touching the floor...

Signs of Madness

I almost titled this “They Took Photographs of Their Food.” I had some thoughts tonight after starting to make my dinner around 9 pm after a long day.   I took leftover homemade bread from Easter, put spaghetti sauce on it, then while looking in frig for shredded cheese noticed some leftover Avocado Tomatillo sauce and I put that between the pasta sauce and cheese. And then, I did something very strange:   I took a photograph of it with the ingredients...