Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles

The Mirror: A Short Story Written in 2005

August 8, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

(Preface: This story was written in the fall of 2005 and dealt with both the death of my first marriage covenant and the death of my mother, originally written in an intertwined rumination of sorts. It was written in a free-association and free-form style, actually in one single evening, from a friend’s beach house where I went alone with a key, to pore through the paperwork involved in filing for divorce through a simple mediated process where we worked out...

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Vindicating Margaret

July 22, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Since Sunday afternoon (July 3) of my recent trip to Buckhannon, I have had a somewhat unusual internal experience and process that seems to be unfolding within me, in an unexpected and potentially interesting and healing way. They say we must pursue truth, wherever that leads us.It sometimes seems everyone has their own truth. Even Pilate said to Jesus, “What is truth?” In all human conflicts there seems that one person’s truth is pitted against another’s. Or one political group...

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Carter Was Particularly “Violent” Toward Me

July 13, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Eventually I will be writing and elaborating more on the contents of my mother’s 1945/1946 diary. I took some of her diaries with me on my getaway to Buckhannon in case I wanted to study them more closely. On Sunday evening, after taking a drive out to the old Weston Hospital (now the Trans-Alleghany Lunatic Asylum) and taking some photos and going in parts of the first floor, I came back to the hotel and began reading through her writings....

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Post-Humous RX for Best Meds to ‘Fix My Mother’

July 13, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Preface:(This piece was written August 11, 2016 – I found this in my “Writings” files I brought on my getaway to Buckhannon, WVA this weekend. I was re-reading it and decided I wanted to add it to my blog. I recall being in the earlier stages of meeting with a therapist in Alabama and sharing as much as I could about my own upbringing as context to the situation I had found myself in and how it was affecting me...

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My Mother Was Also Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

July 13, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Parts of Psalm 139, NIV: “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb… for I am fearfully and wonderfully made… My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them…” This is a pictorial companion piece...

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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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