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“Portals” Themed Art: Conductivity

May 2, 2023
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Artwork For Sale

Dear Clients and Friends, I write to let you know about a new original artwork for sale in my March Musical Madness Collection called “Conductivity,” and canvas print purchasing options, as well! Enjoy the images below that follow the transformational journey of an old canvas that had an imperfect image which I was ready to paint over! The images below show my process of transforming a canvas with an unwanted image into a new piece of art. I’ve been painting on a very large portrait of...

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Holy Disruption, and the Afterward Knock-Offs

March 13, 2023
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

The spontaneous revival-like services on the campus of Asbury University began on February 8 and continued for sixteen days straight. I recall first hearing of this outpouring through a church’s email mentioning the event and encouraging members to possibly pilgrimage (my word) to Wilmore, Kentucky to “test” this thing, as I recall. For a variety of reasons, I didn’t give much of my attention to this email, but noted a few things that triggered discomfort, based upon observance of past...

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Bluegrass Meets Hebrew-Formed Sound!

February 18, 2023
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics

I get a bit excited when I discover a new musical group to incorporate into my Spotify and its various playlists. Since I am not a radio listener, the mechanism for my new discoveries come by way of YouTube suggestions. While there is a tremendous amount of online-bad in having our preferences, interests and other internet explorations monitored, the usage of my algorhythm to introduce me to music I like is actually welcomed. (It should be noted that YouTube in...

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New Children’s Book Release: The Amazing Magical Musical Tree

February 11, 2023
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Books, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Writings

The following is taken from my most recent studio newsletter. If you would like to receive my periodic newsletter by email, please send me a message. Thank you! Dear Clients and Friends, I write to let you know about a new children’s book I recently published called The Amazing Magical Musical Tree. This work took me seven years to complete, and is available for sale on Amazon. If you would like a signed copy or special inscription for gift-giving, you can...

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My Mother’s Coded Diary Message Made the Translator Break Out in a Smile When She Figured it Out!

January 2, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

It would be fair to say that over the years my mother did in fact utilize forms of coded messages (or other overtly odd notes, statements, instructions, letter-writing and documents) in a variety of her writings. That said, what was contained in her young diaries/writings which I have in my possession, provide a basis of both intrigue, statements open to interpretation and clear evidences of both her high intelligence, wit, musical abilities and interest in forms of word-play. It doesn’t...

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Hell Came Calling This Morning…

November 16, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Personal Writings, Writings

I know the title is shocking, perhaps, but my intention is far from profanity. The word “hell” was on the lips of Jesus Himself, a few times in scripture. Technically, it was another word in Aramaic that came to us translated as such. I seem to be regularly moving through a number of ongoing difficult and hellish situations. No day is one-hundred percent difficult, or one-hundred percent of anything. As CS Lewis noted, something along the lines of “we never...

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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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The Work of Becoming a Woman

August 3, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

We often hear phrases like, “Be a man.” But I don’t think we as often hear, “Be a woman.” Or especially…keep becoming a man…or keep becoming a woman. This carries with it the idea of ever-evolving, transforming and growing into all that it means to be a man or to be a woman. And I find this very relatable. When we hear something like, “Be a man about this…or that…,” we seem to mostly understand what that means or implies....

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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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Yes, Yes, Lord – the Song of a Childlike Heart

April 1, 2022
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

I am no stranger to waking up morning after morning after morning with the heavy cares and thoughts of a fifty-eight year old twice-divorced woman. This waking state for me – and last night followed a good nine hours of sleep and unrecalled-but-difficult dreams – seems to be becoming quite a time of emotional and spiritual grounding and observations. During the past seven to ten days, somehow my first heavy waking thoughts of either I can’t do this or I...

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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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