Mary Effie Carter

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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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Today is the Day I’m Going to End This

September 14, 2023
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Dreams, Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

If you honestly believed you were under a generational family curse–an actual pronounced or written, intentional curse–what would you do to put an end to it? As Christians, we claim to believe in the supernatural realm. Our very faith rests on a confession of belief that Jesus Christ of Nazareth suffered in the spiritual realms to reconcile us to God. We confess belief that the physical, manifested symbol of that spiritual work was evidenced in His bodily resurrection, and that...

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By eileenslifer
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Various Thoughts About Generational Blessing and Cursing

May 9, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

I’ve been thinking on these things for quite awhile. Those who have been in various Christian settings have likely heard references to a number of scriptures that indicate that both spiritual blessing (legacy) and spiritual cursing (legacy) can flow through families in a variety of ways. It feels daunting in my mind to lay out too many different scriptures (let alone connect them to family specifics) that one should seek to better understand regarding these things, so I will try...

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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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Mabel Irene Linger

November 21, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles

My mother’s older sister, Mabel Irene Linger, was fourth in the birth order of the ten Linger siblings born to John Curry Linger and Mary Effie Carter. __________ On the back of one of the above three photos, was a hand-notation that it was taken at Glen Echo. Since the attire of Aunt Mabel and her friend are identical, I grouped the three images together. I Googled “Glen Echo” and discovered a bit of interesting history. It was an amusement...

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By eileenslifer
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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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