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“We Are Our Grandmother’s Prayers; We are Mothers of Courage” (Sweet Honey in the Rock)

June 20, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics

I have been working on the scanning and printing and adding to my blogged life stories the baby albums of each of my children. (I had hoped) to finish it by Mother’s Day and intend to gift each of them a copy of these scanned/printed albums plus some more prints of their About Baby Books with milestones and all kinds of written babyhood details and remembrances – but it proved to be quite more of a daunting task than I...

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Banana Days

May 27, 2022
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Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Writings

Now I know That I knew nothing back then All I thought I knew Was another day where we might take a walk Around the mobile home park Where I might vacuum the rug Throw in some laundry Turn on the TV We might sit on the couch With the morning sun peeking through some lace curtains Maybe you would like a banana and I would hand you one and sit and watch you eat it Maybe we would chat...

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Trauma Talkin’ Part III: On The Way To The Family Reunion

March 26, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Written 4/24/17 I’m 54 and I just survived another round of extreme stress in my life. I guess my “fight or flight” energy is still going so I’ll let it down gradually by taking a moment to write down a story from my childhood to help bring mental closure to this round. There is a quote by James Taylor which I love: “To me, very much of what is artistic is people’s very creative and inventive ways out of impossible...

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Embracing the World With Open Arms

March 25, 2022
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

From the moment I aroused from sleep and my mind began to percolate with picking up where I left off last night with so much… The familiar flavor of fear and dread permeated my slowly waking consciousness…I suppose it is somewhere around day #823 of my technical post divorce recovery journey… But battles such as I’m facing didn’t start on that day. And some have a much much longer repetition and trajectory. Be kind because you never know what battles...

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Trauma Talkin’ Part IV: The Metamorphosis – Eileen Becomes a Woman

March 13, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

To fully appreciate this most recently created audio-visual presentation, I suggest familiarizing with what I shared in this previous entry TRAUMA TALKIN’ PART II: SORRY YOU’VE GOT THE WRONG NUMBER since it might answer some of the common questions of who, what, where, when, how and why I have these very peculiar tape recordings made by my mother during the mid-70’s, and how I am attempting to use them in a creative, processing-ly (ongoing) healing and expressive way. I also...

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War Zones and Gunga Din

February 27, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Like most days around here, I spend a lot of time in create solitude and contemplations, often pausing here and there to draft snippets that interweave my daily tasks and experiences with written thoughts springing from whatever the activity at-hand. Yesterday, I started my day with thoughts about my own personal battles in my small world here…coupled with awareness of a major war zone now unfolding in the Ukraine. With my own heavy-but-small battles here I’ve recently turned away from...

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The Unexpected Rapid Round Trip From Hawaii to Antarctica and Back – With No Preparation Nor Suitcase Packed

February 5, 2022
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Personal Writings, Writings

Hurting people hurt. This is absolutely true. Everything is complicated. This is absolutely true. There is nothing new under the Sun. This is absolutely true. Sparing the horrible, seemingly endless plethora of details of that which seemed to put me on a metaphorical emotional and spiritual one-way flight yesterday evening from Hawaii to Antarctica…this morning, as I try to get my sense of self and all that is good, right and spiritually true in this world and all else aligned…...

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Is It Written?

December 10, 2021
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I almost called this The Sovereign-Free-Will Agency of God, Man and Developing Children but by the end of this piece, decided Is It Written? would be more fitting. A little play-on-words and content… I recently read a lengthy review of a book called the Openness of God which deals with our understanding of God’s sovereignty and human free agency and the often pondered quest to understand the secret workings of God in the world and in ourselves. A string of...

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Positioning the Nativity

December 5, 2021
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Personal Writings, Writings

I remember the year that we bought a beautiful and somewhat large-figured nativity set for Christmas. I had unpacked and set it up on a piece of furniture in the dining room and I suppose without thinking through how to position the animals and humans around the manger, I had them placed some of them – probably all but Mary and Joseph – facing outward from Baby Jesus, toward the viewer. One day I noticed these were all turned around...

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Slipping the Bonds of Earth

November 4, 2021
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

Commentary and analysis of the song "We Can Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens.

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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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