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Women’s, Family, and Recovery Issues

Decatur Distance

January 13, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Thirteen years ago if someone had told me I would live in Decatur, Alabama I would have not only had to look at a map to see where it was, I would not have believed them. Thirteen years from now, if God gives me the good fortune to see that day, I will probably remember Decatur, Alabama almost like the back of my hand.It can feel emotionally jarring at times, like some time-turned-tornado of my internal world. There are places...

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Understanding the Art of Sharing a MEME

January 10, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

There is a phenomenon I’ve noticed on social media where some people share memes with certain themes or ideas, some with regularity as though they are fixed on the same advice-giving platitude. When sharing a meme, we should be aware of our audience. On social media, it is highly likely that at least 1 in 10 of your friends may be struggling with forms of despair–loss, repeated loss, grief, hopelessness, rejection, self-rejection, and more. Some may even be wondering if...

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A Woman Named Emma

January 9, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

As I was thinking on this piece today there were several different scripture texts that popped into my mind and I almost wanted to start with one of them, but when I read the surrounding context I’m not sure it is well-suited to the main theme of this piece. On the other hand, perhaps it is a perfectly-suited opener. My fear is that readers may become diverted with all the controversial mess-and-mucky interpretations/applications/conversations that have likely been surrounding this chapter...

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Teachers With Savior Complexes, Hubris and ‘Sticking it to Mom’

January 2, 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 I remember back on various kind, insightful and helpful teachers in my village from kindergarten through my senior year of high school, there are several that I will especially never forget. It think of Mrs. Morton–a third grade teacher but not my homeroom teacher–that when I was in 4th grade learning to crochet and had brought a blanket I was trying to make as a Christmas gift for my Daddy from scraps of yarn a neighbor gave me and...

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My Mother Referenced ‘Confucius’ in Her High School Poetry Assignment

January 2, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

In part of laying the groundwork for future subjective writings about my mother’s young life and a variety of events, in connection with not only telling my own life story but hers (which is intrinsically interconnected with my own), I am making a variety of observations about my mother through her young writings. Perhaps it is unfair and biased but as I glanced over the collection of classmate poems that she typed for her junior class as part of an...

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My Mother’s Coded Diary Message Made the Translator Break Out in a Smile When She Figured it Out!

January 2, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

It would be fair to say that over the years my mother did in fact utilize forms of coded messages (or other overtly odd notes, statements, instructions, letter-writing and documents) in a variety of her writings. That said, what was contained in her young diaries/writings which I have in my possession, provide a basis of both intrigue, statements open to interpretation and clear evidences of both her high intelligence, wit, musical abilities and interest in forms of word-play. It doesn’t...

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When All You Think About is Who Has Power: Deconstructionism and Intellectual Sleight-of-Hand

December 26, 2022
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I am listening to a very good podcast and need to pass it along for those who share in the pursuit of truth, morality, faith, justice and a host of other things from a vantage point that embraces both the individual (in the best sense) and objective truth and is not grounded in destructive ideology that feigns moral and intellectual integrity. I am beginning to lament various amounts of my gravitation toward some of the popular, influential deconstructionist voices that...

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‘Birthing People’ and the Nativity

December 23, 2022
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I recently learned that legislation has passed/is being passed to change the language of “birth mother” to “birthing people.” During this sacred season in which Christians observe both Advent and the celebration of our Lord’s incarnation and birth on Christmas Day, I invite readers to consider the implications of “what if” language change in the most often-read account of the birth of Jesus. I have inserted the (theoretical, for consideration) changes in bold/red/parenthesis in the scripture texts below. While I...

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The Year I Slept Through Christmas

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

1983 was definitely the year I slept through Christmas. I checked the calendar. Yep, Christmas fell on a Sunday that year. And, I recall where I was the surrounding years. Oh wait. It actually might have been 1982. There’s a chance it was that year. But, I really think it was 1983. Not sure where I was 1982. Christmas of 1981 I had taken a bus to Boonsboro, MD and spent the holiday with my Aunt Virginia, Uncle Bill and...

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The Transgender Religion: From Relational Control to Dispensation of Existence

December 17, 2022
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I am gripped with heavy, heavy sorrow – gripped with remorse. I am gripped with not only remorse, but I am gripped with fear. I am gripped with fear because I fear my son is gone. As I continue to apprehend the depth of the evil that has overcome my family, I discover new levels of the horror of it all. And there is nothing, seemingly, that I can do to fix it. May God have mercy. And I don’t...

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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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