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What Does That Even Mean?

August 22, 2022
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My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

What does it mean to walk in the truth? I am sure each of us might answer that differently. Rather than my stating what I believe it means to walk in the truth, I think thoughts about fruits that cannot but be understood as anything other than the antithesis of walking in the truth. I think of times I have not walked in the truth. I think of God’s mercy and gentle fetching back of me and those who wander...

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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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Finding Ourselves in the Story: Lamentations Style Poetry

August 16, 2022
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Tonight as I reflect upon the various aspects of my difficult day, after difficult yesterday and the difficult day before and the day before and the days before those days feel difficult and I anticipate tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the day after the day after tomorrow and all the days that will follow those will likely be…difficult…I think of three particular things. The first thing I think on is how diamonds are formed under a slow, constant...

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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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I’m Being Supervised by a CAT – and He’s Forcing Me to Think Dystopian Thoughts!

August 13, 2022
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Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Writings

True Story! This afternoon I tried to reach Verizon. First, by using a number I taped awhile back to my computer, with reminder to just keep hitting “O.” In recent years, this number doesn’t work right. I Googled “Verizon customer service number.” Got it. Called 3 different times. First round, I kept hitting “O” and refusing to comply with the hedgehogs. I think I did get to choose something reasonable, but I must have hit the wrong prompt and got...

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Names, Naming, YAHWEH and YAHWEH Children

August 10, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Awhile back a visiting guest had some fun giving my four cats “secret names.” After interacting with each cat, a quirky and fun name was assigned to each as the kitty’s “secret name” – different from that which each cat had already been named. This memory came into my mind last week and I started writing some thoughts in a draft here, and felt led to finish it up and refine/edit my initial thoughts, today. I will leave parts from...

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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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And This Will Be My Reply to Violence…

August 5, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Violences come in all forms. There are violences much deeper than those that inflict physical wounding. These word violences and other forms of human and demonic assaults, as I now see it, that exist in the spiritual realm, are quite piercing. The unseen battles, as I see them, are quite real. Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?” We all have our own truth, in some ways, and then there is…the truth. From where I stand, this one single picture represents...

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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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