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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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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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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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I Want This More Than Wanting to Hold My Grandbabies

August 3, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

This piece is really pretty simple. More than wanting to hold my grandbabies, I want to see the sweet, grown, sensitive, loving and kind beautiful face of my son, Jonathan, holding his children....

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Is My Life Supposed to be This Way?

July 10, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Yesterday I spent a large part of my day on and off painting on two different paintings in my studio – one a commissioned wedding event painting, and the other, a landscape started in Buckannon, West Virginia a week ago today. On any given day, I have a lot in my mind. I’m just that kind of person, I suppose… Lots of contemplations of all sorts – often both comedy and tragedy, filled with both humor and deep empathic thoughts,...

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White Lace and Promises – June 1, 1985

June 1, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I suppose it takes a lot of nerve to make a blog post like this. But, it just seems fitting, for some reason. My marriage to James Edward Elfers took place on June 1, 1985 at Newark Christian Fellowship in Kemblesville, PA. Officiants were Reverend Gerald (Neil) Uniacke and Reverend Bruce Latshaw. This was the first wedding Neil had performed, as I recall, and was the second wedding on the property in the church’s partially finished Barn. In fact, members...

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Grateful God Works in Mysteriously Weird Ways!!! A Bit Nostalgic Here…

April 26, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

I am putting my Social Media Post From Today here for some additional photos and written expression! It sent me on a nostalgia break as I located some photos on my computer and previous Social Media Post from 2017! God does work in mysterious ways and I like to acknowledge that, along with all the twists and turns my life keeps taking along with the adventures (and misadventures). They say a picture is worth a thousand words, I believe that!...

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Your Daily Does of ‘Whatever This Is!’ – HA.

March 29, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

Social Media Post on My Lunch Break: “Your daily dose of cuteness and watching things that in the least, interest and intrigue me! Yes. It was indeed a double yolker! “A friend of mine downsized and we’ve been yard sailing some stuff together and she had some adorable little cast iron miniature pans… I love cast iron and so I wanted these… first time to carefully test them. Kind of fun and cute to just fry a couple eggs at...

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The Things You May Find in a Christian-Owned Mega-Corporation

March 1, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

Every once in awhile I kind of find myself in some pregnant pause as I stroll through the “Hobby Lobby.” While part of me feels some amount of remorse for possibly being all “judgy” of this Christian Corporation, another part of me feels it may be okay to express my opinion. You know. As a professional artist. And, a Christian, too. Today, I had one of those pause moments, later wondering at how a product passed through the eye of...

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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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