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Life Stories

When the Spaces in Between Words Do Not Add Up

October 24, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Personal Writings, Writings

As in most families throughout human history, the passing and preserving of family stories is considered a worthwhile pursuit. For me, family stories seem to hold a critical space and I mean this in two ways. Critical as in essential to me in my continued understandings of my own life and self, and critical as in information to deeply analyze, explore, interpret and otherwise not simply take at face value. This morning, as I muse through a writing in a...

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Freely Emotional, Distorted and Intentionally Child-like Illustrations

October 10, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

In the process of working here and there on written out expressions of various life stories, going back to my first one done in 2006 called Crime and Punishment of the Problem Child, I continue to illustrate various parts in a very spontaneous (few preliminary pencil details, just enough to put on the marker) and loose style. My goal in these is first speed (I work these in as some type of reward in between doing commissioned watercolor – a...

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What Does it Mean to ‘Never Forget’

September 11, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Like most citizens of the United States, I remember where I was and what I was doing when I got news that we were under attack on September 11, 2001. They say history is written by the victors (or seeming victors) and there’s so much truth in this. Narratives and story lines. While collectively we Americans (and many who unite the Bible with the flag) speak to others of forgiving people and just letting go, at the same time on...

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Does God Want Our Empathy?

September 3, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Thoughts on the Book of Job, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

From the onset of this expression, I want to make it clear that these are simply my own pondering thoughts this morning. While anyone can likely make some case for something, somehow, from Scripture, I hope that I will not attempt to do that. (I hope). But likely, I will attempt to, possibly in my very next paragraphs…Because it is all subject to many understandings and in particular, some might press the point of theological integrity (by integrity, I mean,...

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I Cannot Come

August 19, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I seem to be in some situation where I cannot truly plan how to navigate the seemingly endless string of plaguing locusts in my situation. I mean, I plan, and plan well…however…. This morning I inwardly reflect on another day awoken to here where seemingly unnecessary things are before me, thwarting and sapping me of every bit of mental, emotional and physical stamina when I’m barely finished my coffee after a good eight hours sleep. “Lord Jesus, what do I...

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The Words Which Were Actually Spoken…

August 14, 2022
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Life Stories, My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

On any given day, I have a lot of words in my mind of all sorts. On any given day, I take in a lot of words from external sources. On any given day, I output a lot of words, more or less…in various ways, for better or worse. During the past year or more, I seem to be taking more note of the full moon and various related things that seem to come my way during this time. While...

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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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Not Afraid of Sixes, Opening a Fortune Cookie in Buckhannon, WV…or Painting a Black Cat into My “Masterpiece!”

August 8, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

On this Sunday afternoon, as I try to navigate through the muck, devastations and other aftermath of what most rational people might term a serious string of bad luck – that my neighbor, acutely aware of the various sequences of my seeming bad luck, especially with vehicles, that I’ve endured here over the past two years, actually agreed with me the other night on the phone, using a different word that though I’ve heard before, is not in my typical...

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Holding Tentacles With 10,000 Octopi/Recognizing Despair/Job Chapter 6:2-3

August 7, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Maybe Mr. Rogers was wrong about something. Maybe even, he was wrong about everything. He lived in a world of make-believe, and he told children, “Whenever you are in a scary situation, always look for those who are helping.” (paraphrase of how I remember it…I suppose I don’t always need to read the news to see scary situations). Furthermore, I also may be wrong that I perceived when we reach to someone we think might help alay our fears, and...

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I Want This More Than Wanting to Hold My Grandbabies

August 3, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

This piece is really pretty simple. More than wanting to hold my grandbabies, I want to see the sweet, grown, sensitive, loving and kind beautiful face of my son, Jonathan, holding his children....

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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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