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Reflections on Painful Cyberspaces

February 25, 2022
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Personal Writings, Writings

So. Trying to hit the most mentally draining task first, this morning. This is what it is like: I am searching email under “orders” – to make sure I have downloaded any receipts for orders in 2021 and also notated in my clerical records. Because, need to do my taxes. Other things interdependent on THAT.While doing this, I also come across emails regarding actual orders from customers. I need to make sure that previous customer is on my newsletter contacts...

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Sacred Spaces

February 25, 2022
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Personal Writings, Writings

I made this video yesterday afternoon, toward dark. Just thought I’d share it, along with copying the text I put with it on my YouTube. I have found recently uploading to YouTube is the best way to embed video for use on my blog. Yesterday I was listening to some George Winston, a song I find quite meditative, on loop, while also wanting to move a wheelbarrow full of dirt elsewhere to at least plant one row of snow peas....

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69min 50sec of Pleasant, Calm, Meaningful Conversation with “Comcast-Xfinity Angelo” – Plus Chats with Robots/Internet Lingo-Acronyms/WIP’s

February 24, 2022
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Covid Pandemic Issues, Information and Ethics, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Life can be an adventure, if you keep your eyes open. This is just too good! After taking a ride on some Conniption Train yesterday for most of my mind-boggling conscious day with some complicated issue over Google and Verizon Clouds, issues with Apple TV, too…and more….I decided I was up for another round, so-to-speak, late this afternoon. I mean, it’s an absolutely beautiful (but windy) day here in the mid-sixties, and as I dealt with some laundry and got...

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Taking the Headlong Plunge into Trauma Talkin’ (Part I)

February 20, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

“Have you ever heard of THERAPY!” This comment was written on social media in response to a friend’s blog-writing/sharing about the four-year-anniversary of the stillbirth of their full term son. It was unclear whether this was a question, or a statement, by the comment, or what their intention was. Right before this ending statement, the comment-maker acknowledged that the death of a child is hard/sad but that it had “been awhile” and then ended with that. Later, she and her...

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Quail, Quizzical Quizzicism, Obstacles, Obstinence and Optimism

February 15, 2022
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Quail. Quizzical Quizzicism: Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??????!!!!!!! Obstacles, Obstinance, Optimisim…Context…Courage. __________ It would seem I’ve been to the Silicon-Valley-of-the-Shadow-of-Death-and-back in the past twelve hours and am still somewhat uncertain if I’m out of these dark, dark sandy, woods! After a wonderful three days of reconnecting with my cousin, Laura, after not seeing her for three years, I returned home last night already resuming my anxiety over the vast amount of needful promotional work and other projects to resume focus on, to find my...

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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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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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Problems and Predicaments

February 3, 2022
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Listening to a podcast last night, I became focused on this statement:“Problems have solutions. Predicaments have outcomes.”That’s an interesting way to frame something… _________The podcast was in reference to issues now embedded in a pretty broad topic of current world interest, not my typical self-help podcasts – Ha. To me, this statement is interesting because it reflects the complexity of most things. Some things truly are problems that can be fairly clearly solved. I would say predicaments might be situations...

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In the Delightful Deadness of the Dark, Dreary, Dismal, Difficult, Depressing Drudgeries of the Winters, New Life is Born Again and Again and Again

February 2, 2022
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Personal Writings, Writings

When winter has done its beautiful, cold, dreadful and dreary work, suddenly one day we start to come alive. We get the urge and yearning to plant and to grow and to move into the cycle of another season and chapter. Yesterday it was 18° in the morning; and it was 34° at high noon today. But I think I can get this wood stove going and tackle things in the basement of the studio building and begin to move...

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Looking For – and Creating – CONSTANTS – in a World Full of Endless Variables

January 31, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

I went to bed rather early last night around 10:00. I had a very active weekend in a number of ways and found myself pretty well exhausted physically and mentally by that time Sunday night. I actually remember thinking to myself that like a computer, that after heavy activity, begins to have some “file and program” processing issues, I knew I needed a good restart and reboot for Monday. As I turned off all the lights in various rooms and...

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That’s My Life in There….

January 27, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

Recently I had a conversation with an elderly person who said, “That’s my life in there…” While our lives are certainly more than what we interact with in the material realm, there is a huge truth I think we should pause and listen to, in these words… I imagine these thoughts are not uncommon as people continue to age. It was the idea and somewhat depressing yet realistic thought that one day after one’s death others will come into their...

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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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