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Familial Generational Spirits: Vintage ~1994

July 23, 2023
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I can still see the faces and odd behaviors of many of my siblings in Christ that night, when I showed up (with trepidation) to assess in person what was in the process of demolishing the Christian Community (as I knew it) that I had been part of for twelve years since I was an 18-year-old convert committed to following Jesus. My first husband and I were already on the brink of leaving, as were a large number of others....

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Closer to the ‘First Days’ of Humankind: Commandments With Promises

April 15, 2023
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Jesus often chose to talk about very deep subjects and truths in metaphor and parables, which seems to be a way of powerfully distilling matters. Some were able to hear and understand, and others–even those actively wanting to follow Him–found His words and stories elusive. I think that many of His words and parables get diluted in our understandings some two thousand years later because with modernization and technology we get further and further away from the most basic truths...

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Between the Three Children There Have Been Six Suicide Attempts

March 2, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I listened to this interview tonight and quite honestly, I’ve never heard of a situation quite like this. All kinds of thoughts will be surely and rightfully ignited by this woman’s story. I don’t think anything I could write about it would compare with the words of the interviewer at one point toward the end. I take the title from a statement that Tracy Shannon made, as she shared her heart-wrenching story. “I’m blown away by the suffering of your...

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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 Then ‘Imagination’ Jesus Said to Me, “Make Ready Your Dancing Shoes, Grandmom!”

July 27, 2022
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Feral Thoughts, Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I was painting this afternoon, finally, for a good block of time. I’ve been really distracted by so much, recently. As I listened to music, painted and thought about various things, I was wondering to myself…how, if or when might I even hear or know when my youngest son’s twins are born – my grandbabies – since he has decided to have no contact with me. I got to thinking about a story a dear older friend told me. More...

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Crime and Punishment of the Problem Child

July 20, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

by Eileen Slifer An Illustrated Short Story Written February 4, 2006 based on recollections of a true event “Life is like a movie in which you get to play the part in a scene just once, experiencing the sequence of events with all its sights, sounds, and subtleties in moments of time, leaving you nothing but mental and emotional replay for years to come.” That I was a particularly clever or devious child I would not describe myself as such....

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I Wish I Had Never Conceived You

July 13, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I was standing in my mother’s kitchen, in my childhood home. I was in the same kitchen where my father had stood over the sink six years earlier on a Friday evening in early May, arguing with my mother, while having a heart attack. I was trying to get past my mother and out the back door, and she stood on the step or two between the kitchen and the back door landing. She was holding the wrought-iron railing and...

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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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My Frozen Father

May 11, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Some stories are birthed in pitch black darkness. They are the writings of a lunatic under a full moon that reflects no light because the sun has vanquished. They are the recollections of unexpressed howling during a full eclipse of the sun at midnight. To some, they are inconsequential retrospective ramblings of an aging woman who would do well to stop thinking back on that long ago May day… To others, this is a story of intrigue and resilience. Looking...

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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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