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Exhausting, But Seemingly Necessary

July 23, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

How long would you–or could you–keep working diligently day by day without a clear indication of benefit and outcome? On Friday I delved into the process of retroactively creating YouTube videos of various gigs from the recent past, and have come to a pausing point today, Sunday, having put enough on yet another new business website I recently created called Creative Party Entertainment–Central PA. As part of this endeavor and wanting to scour, purge and otherwise continue organizing the plethora...

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Familial Generational Spirits: Vintage ~1994

July 23, 2023
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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

I can still see the faces and odd behaviors of many of my siblings in Christ that night, when I showed up (with trepidation) to assess in person what was in the process of demolishing the Christian Community (as I knew it) that I had been part of for twelve years since I was an 18-year-old convert committed to following Jesus. My first husband and I were already on the brink of leaving, as were a large number of others....

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Pharoahs, Peeps, Predators, Peers and Protective Instincts

July 20, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

When the Israelites were in captivity under Pharoah in Egypt, it impacted a number of things concerning control and freedom in their reproductive behavior and rightful parental ownership (in the sense of normal, healthy parental rights) regarding their children and grand-children. At least early on, perhaps this people group was not constrained in freely populating in the times when Joseph’s family came to Egypt seeking refuge and garnered, perhaps, an amount of favor. Eventually, a new Pharoah came into power...

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A Truth Can Walk Naked…

June 27, 2023
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Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

“A truth can walk naked, But a lie always needs to be dressed.” — Khalil Gibran This month of June is almost over. It has been a month where non-objectors, or promotors, to that which Pride Celebration signifies, have been either doubling-down attempts to virtue signal they are not “hateful” people, or, to increase activist efforts to push the agenda and its accompanying lies. I recently saw two social media posts in the past week that gave me pause. First,...

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Therapy Will Make Your Kids Worse

June 15, 2023
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Covid Pandemic Issues, Information and Ethics, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I am passing on a cluster of inter-related talks, with the primary one being a conversation about how therapy in the current socio-political climate will make your kids worse. For those with children, those with grandchildren, those who teach, those who parent or help parent…basically for anyone who cares about children and their well-being…I suggest you might find some time to listen in to this discussion. It can be easy to presume by a title what the content or even...

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Is it ‘Beautiful’ to Cause ‘Trouble’?

June 6, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I was recently in conversation with a friend about a book title I had come across, finding the contents disturbing, since it is an apparently widely-worldwide embraced tactical manual/playbook for social justice revolutionaries, published in 2012. We talked about how all movements of any sort–from religious to business to political to self-help–have their own how to tactical manifestos, of sorts. I even think of the Dale Carnegie Course which my mother often referred to, or the Emily Post Book of...

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Will You Lie For Others?

June 6, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

This very logical and thought-provoking talk is too valuable not to share here. I highly recommend listening to the entire talk (in order to hear each point dissected and parsed, as it progresses) as this woman methodically explains why in most cases (she gives examples of where she finds exception) we should not participate in this. Toward the end she raises some thoughts about the topic that I had not previously considered, regarding the pro-fragility aspect. She also articulates the...

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The “Religious Doctrine” of ‘Holding Space’

June 3, 2023
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Linguistics and Language Series, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I think I probably began hearing phrases such as hold ‘space,’ give ‘space,’ make ‘space for‘–or that someone is not in ‘that space right now’ to hear such and such–probably somewhere around 2015. I enjoy language, and words that seem to create good mental images or articulate exactly what one wants to say intrigue me. At first, I thought the phrase innocuous, and even useful. But now, for various reasons, I intentionally avoid the phrase “hold space” as much as...

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Closer to the ‘First Days’ of Humankind: Commandments With Promises

April 15, 2023
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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

Jesus often chose to talk about very deep subjects and truths in metaphor and parables, which seems to be a way of powerfully distilling matters. Some were able to hear and understand, and others–even those actively wanting to follow Him–found His words and stories elusive. I think that many of His words and parables get diluted in our understandings some two thousand years later because with modernization and technology we get further and further away from the most basic truths...

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Who Were You Before You Found Yourself in This War?

April 11, 2023
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Life Stories, My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

“Who were you before you found yourself in this war” ~from an email to myself4/6/2018, 1:29 AM In one of my favorite scenes from Saving Private Ryan, the Captain Miller’s small band of men are at such internal odds with one another over various things, and, the mission itself, that they are on the brink of making a new war between themselves. It is then that the Captain (played by Tom Hanks) has the wits about him how to deflect...

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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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