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The “Total Impact” of the Thing Itself…

April 27, 2022
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

A friend encouraged me with this video I share here at the end of this piece, this morning…so good…passing it along. I watched it and was reminded, in what she shared, of one of my favorite quotations: “One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or moment that comes. All manner of ups and downs. Many bad spots in our best times, many good ones in our worst. One never gets the...

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Grateful God Works in Mysteriously Weird Ways!!! A Bit Nostalgic Here…

April 26, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

I am putting my Social Media Post From Today here for some additional photos and written expression! It sent me on a nostalgia break as I located some photos on my computer and previous Social Media Post from 2017! God does work in mysterious ways and I like to acknowledge that, along with all the twists and turns my life keeps taking along with the adventures (and misadventures). They say a picture is worth a thousand words, I believe that!...

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4-22-22: A Day With Eileen Video

April 26, 2022
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Personal Writings

So I’ve been experimenting with an app where I can narrate video clips and also have my Spotify app running too…and then I have a program where I can join them together. I’m doing some thinking on variations of my typical social media communications. I often take many images from what I’m doing here each day and then write up commentary which can be lengthy. I do know some like to see artwork in stages. I interact in a variety...

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Masterpiece of Malevolence Part I (Job 1:1-22)

April 21, 2022
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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

I really seem to be stuck in the book of Job, for some reason. Things in my life – especially in my own internal world – seem to be taking me back to this story for analysis. It is unwieldy – some of the thoughts and observations that cross my mind. I feel like expressing back what I am taking in…and I am not certain how to do this! At least for now, since I gave a general and lengthy...

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Keep Being You

April 19, 2022
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

There’s a line from a movie that has been used in a number of ways and memes in pop culture: You keep using that word – I’m not even sure you know what it means! Awhile back on social media a friend made a comment: Keep being you. So, what does it mean to be me?And what does it mean to keep being me? What does it mean to be you? What does it mean to keep being you? I suppose...

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Life Themes – Past, Present and Future

April 16, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

I seem to still be reflecting upon life themes more closely. I have modified my own life theme list into two sections, not necessarily in a particular order and in each section one single thing may come and go from the forefront of the intersections of past, present and future… But, basically the first section involves my observation of my own life themes in terms of challenges or conflicts based on situations beginning at birth, and technically before birth, since...

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It Isn’t Finished

April 15, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

Three Previous Titles I Had in Mind: ~I Think We Need to Get a Word Count on the Book of Job ~For They Saw How Great His Suffering Was ~Connecting the Book of Job to Christ on the Cross I have finished a lot of works during my lifetime. I’ve met numerous deadlines both external or self-imposed. But, this blog piece is not going to be finished by my self-imposed deadline of noon on this Good Friday. This was a...

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WRT, Jesus and The Paschal Triduum

April 14, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

Recently I was in written dialogue with someone who used WRT in caps a number of times. At first I was skimming over this acronym since I would pause a moment and not be able to quickly figure out what it meant. Visually, it closely resembles WTF so I found myself pausing to double-check I wasn’t having a dyslexic moment. I finally looked it up and discovered it means “with reference to.” Then it made sense to me. This morning...

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Yes, Yes, Lord – the Song of a Childlike Heart

April 1, 2022
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

I am no stranger to waking up morning after morning after morning with the heavy cares and thoughts of a fifty-eight year old twice-divorced woman. This waking state for me – and last night followed a good nine hours of sleep and unrecalled-but-difficult dreams – seems to be becoming quite a time of emotional and spiritual grounding and observations. During the past seven to ten days, somehow my first heavy waking thoughts of either I can’t do this or I...

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Portrait in Purple: Innocence

March 30, 2022
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Commissions and Client Comments, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

Sometimes I complete portraits that are gifts, or otherwise personally inspired and non-commissioned works. This piece is one of them. Begun around 2018 or 2019 while still in Alabama, I was inspired by some old photos I saw either online, or possibly by email…old photos of my cousin, Laura, that I had never seen before. I recently learned that her oldest brother, Dennis Slifer, had taken these old black-and-white treasures…I do have them in my computer files labeled “Laura…and 1963…”...

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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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