John Curry Linger

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Death Was All Around Us

May 10, 2024
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

-written 3/9/24 to 5/10/24 Coming up with titles for blog pieces is a significant part of my writing process. Especially when my thoughts run deeper on an expression, I feel the title needs to somehow encapsulate the essence of my thoughts. Tonight, I’ve been listening to Band of Brothers episodes for the first time in a long while, while doing some other work and musing in the back of my mind on this piece. In one of the interspersed interviews...

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By eileenslifer
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Mountain Daisies of West Virginia

December 7, 2022
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Artwork For Sale, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Uncategorized, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

In July of this year I took a trip to my mother’s hometown of Buckhannon, West Virginia. It was a personal pilgrimage of sorts. I had only been to Buckhannon once (and very briefly) during the summer of 1978. That was the summer between my father’s retirement in 1977 after working over forty years with the Soil Conservation Service in Elkton, MD, and his death in May 1979. We had gone from the annual Slifer family reunion in Boonsboro, MD...

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By eileenslifer
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When Peculiar People Decide That You Are Acting Peculiar!

November 21, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

(written 11/5/22 to 11/2022) In April of 1946, three of my mother’s siblings decided my mother was acting peculiar. Peculiar enough to permanently end her college pursuits and dreams (it is appearing she was interested in getting a degree in music rather than business), by withdrawing her from West Virginia University without her consent when she was a student in good standing, gainfully employed and a twenty-two year old adult. Peculiar enough to be violent with her. And peculiar enough...

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By eileenslifer
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When the Spaces in Between Words Do Not Add Up

October 24, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Personal Writings, Writings

As in most families throughout human history, the passing and preserving of family stories is considered a worthwhile pursuit. For me, family stories seem to hold a critical space and I mean this in two ways. Critical as in essential to me in my continued understandings of my own life and self, and critical as in information to deeply analyze, explore, interpret and otherwise not simply take at face value. This morning, as I muse through a writing in a...

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By eileenslifer
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Vindicating Margaret

July 22, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Since Sunday afternoon (July 3) of my recent trip to Buckhannon, I have had a somewhat unusual internal experience and process that seems to be unfolding within me, in an unexpected and potentially interesting and healing way. They say we must pursue truth, wherever that leads us.It sometimes seems everyone has their own truth. Even Pilate said to Jesus, “What is truth?” In all human conflicts there seems that one person’s truth is pitted against another’s. Or one political group...

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By eileenslifer
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My Mother Was Also Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

July 13, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Parts of Psalm 139, NIV: “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb… for I am fearfully and wonderfully made… My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them…” This is a pictorial companion piece...

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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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