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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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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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Sacrilege, Anthropomorphism and Theological Musings

March 13, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

So. This is the piece I am choosing to bring to completion today. I started it on December 20, 2021. I’ve had a rough couple of weeks. Friday night and yesterday, I made time to work on some blog pieces, as some reward for surviving, yet, hitting some glitches, the piece I was focused on cannot yet be completed. It will now need to wait until I can invest the time needed to do it properly. Oh, and as I...

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Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Two-Hundred Dollars

February 17, 2020
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

There are times in our lives when we find ourselves in a prison of sorts. Times of deep grief, losses, upheavals and disruptions of all kinds and sometimes on every front. It is no longer business as usual. We find ourselves on the proverbial roller coaster. Metaphorically we are forced to not pass ‘GO’ and not collect our metaphorical ‘$200’ – those things which normally allow us to experience every twenty-four hour cycle of this journey called life with the peaceful...

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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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