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Freely Emotional, Distorted and Intentionally Child-like Illustrations

October 10, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

In the process of working here and there on written out expressions of various life stories, going back to my first one done in 2006 called Crime and Punishment of the Problem Child, I continue to illustrate various parts in a very spontaneous (few preliminary pencil details, just enough to put on the marker) and loose style. My goal in these is first speed (I work these in as some type of reward in between doing commissioned watercolor – a...

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And After Job Gushed Out, He Got Invited to an Argument – (Part IV Job 4-5)

July 16, 2022
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Thoughts on the Book of Job, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

In recent times, a friend sent me a meme, “You don’t have to attend every argument you are invited to.” When I say a friend, I mean, truly, a friend. This friend is one who has provided comfort to me in difficult times, and hopefully I have provided the same, to her. There is a beautiful quotation about friendship which says: “A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together,...

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Creative Solitude, Processes and Writing Challenges

May 27, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

(written 12/17/21 to 5/27/22) There’s an old film with Tom Hanks called Castaway. In the film, he is a lost sole survivor from a plane crash who finds himself alone for a lengthy time on an uninhabited island. Since this film only has a few actors other than Tom Hanks himself, I wonder whether the budget was as significant as other films in which he starred as the main character. In this story, to keep himself engaged, he is resourceful...

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Awkward Smalltalk with Thomas, Richard, Harold, and His Brother, Frank, and Her Marriages to George, and John

May 27, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Writings

By Jane Jones Written December 17, 2021 to January 24, 2022 Beginning her writing career at age nine, Jane presented her mother with some Haiku-ish type of assignment containing intentional literary form and meter, upon returning from school one afternoon. LIFE WhAT IS LIFE? LIFE IS TO STUDY, TO WORK, TO PLAY, LIFE IS TO BE YELLED AT, AND HATED BY OTHERS. LIFE IS toRture. BY JANE JONES Jane’s mother read the poem aloud over and over, with various inflections...

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Guest Writing: I See You, by Erin Lokken

May 21, 2022
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I see you. Yes, you. No, you! The little child trying so hard to be perfect. Take a breath. It’s okay to not be perfect. I know, I know, I know. Your parents keep telling you to strive for perfection. I also see them not telling you that nobody on this planet can be perfect. They didn’t tell you, so I am! I see you trying so hard to be the peacemaker. That’s your role as eldest child. But stop!...

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Life Stories: Other Moms, Teenagers and Dogged Pursuit of Normalcy Got Me Through May 16, 1979

May 16, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

(written April 15, 2022 to May 16, 2022) It was my 16th birthday. I got up that morning undoubtedly listening to all kinds of garbage pouring forth from my mother’s mouth. May 16th 1979 A neighbor who lived two doors down, the mother of one of my closest childhood friends at that point, took me to Christiana Mall. Not only do I have vague remembrances of her talking with me about my father’s death just five days prior, and the...

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Masterpiece of Malevolence Part I (Job 1:1-22)

April 21, 2022
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Thoughts on the Book of Job, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I really seem to be stuck in the book of Job, for some reason. Things in my life – especially in my own internal world – seem to be taking me back to this story for analysis. It is unwieldy – some of the thoughts and observations that cross my mind. I feel like expressing back what I am taking in…and I am not certain how to do this! At least for now, since I gave a general and lengthy...

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Life Themes – Past, Present and Future

April 16, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

I seem to still be reflecting upon life themes more closely. I have modified my own life theme list into two sections, not necessarily in a particular order and in each section one single thing may come and go from the forefront of the intersections of past, present and future… But, basically the first section involves my observation of my own life themes in terms of challenges or conflicts based on situations beginning at birth, and technically before birth, since...

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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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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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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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