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Doves, Bacon and Staying the Course

January 26, 2024
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

Provocative titles can make the difference between whether someone wants to read a book, news story or blogpost. I was about to call this Doves, Onions and Staying the Course but if you read on, you will understand why bacon also came into my mind. Anything having to do with bacon may capture one’s attention! Not that this expression is particularly worthy of attention (it is my own musings) but hey, if I’m going to write about something in my...

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Fear ~ Sadness ~ Loss ~ Lack < JOY > Thriving

January 18, 2024
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed Pretty much every morning for at least the past ten years I awake to a sense of fear and unease. In some of my writings here I have described and tackled articulating this phenomenon in various ways from various angles. I think of the Cinderella story. Like clockwork, at midnight everything about her magical life is removed and she is stripped down to her base situation....

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Safe and Unsafe People

August 2, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

About twenty years ago I was in a conversation with a friend and she said that as humans, we tend to subconsciously (or consciously) categorize every other human as either safe or unsafe. Of course this was in the context of relational issues, but I think it has other layers that can involve physical safety and spiritual safety. And this conversation about what it means to be a safe person occurred long before the current linguistical shifts and movements that...

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He Was GOD to Her

January 23, 2023
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

1 Peter 3:5-7 New American Bible (Revised Edition) For this is also how the holy women who hoped in God once used to adorn themselves and were subordinate to their husbands; thus Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him “lord.” You are her children when you do what is good and fear no intimidation. Likewise, you husbands should live with your wives in understanding, showing honor to the weaker female sex, since we are joint heirs of the gift of life, so that...

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How One Should Dress When Walking Out of Their Prison Cell

March 6, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

The image above was created last winter and I recently stumbled upon it, thanks to the reminder of “one year ago today” on social media. I like this image. It is fun. And I thought I need to use it with a writing of some sort. Today, what I want to express seems to oddly fit with this image.__________ This image was created in some moment of both solitude and joy – as I recall, it was a cold day...

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Problems and Predicaments

February 3, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Listening to a podcast last night, I became focused on this statement:“Problems have solutions. Predicaments have outcomes.”That’s an interesting way to frame something… _________The podcast was in reference to issues now embedded in a pretty broad topic of current world interest, not my typical self-help podcasts – Ha. To me, this statement is interesting because it reflects the complexity of most things. Some things truly are problems that can be fairly clearly solved. I would say predicaments might be situations...

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The Safest Place to Be

January 20, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Life is hard. While filled with abounding joys that I believe God wills for us, I imagine most people still wake up with various worries and go to sleep carrying various burdens. This morning as I center myself in my morning routine of reading, contemplation, prayer and music, I am thinking once again about ideas of fear, dread and safety. Many people in this world daily battle these things in the literal sense, while others battle the same things in...

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Does the Bible Say That Hoarding is Evil?!

December 27, 2021
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Writings

As I stood staring at the half-bare shelves in the pet aisle of the local Dollar General, wondering what the difference is between “clumping” and “non-clumping” cat litter (come on…I should know this…I have four cats and am no newbie to the possible inclination toward cat hoarding)…I put these least expensive (but “non-clumping”) bags into my cart, staring at the limited selection of cat litter and cat foods…contemplating whether to also buy a small bag of “indoor cat” kibbles today,...

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I Ate Raw Cookie Dough and I’m Still Alive

July 24, 2020
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

This random joke I made four years ago came up this week in my Facebook feed as one of my memories – with option to re-share. Because, remembering making cookies four years ago and sharing a random amusing thought I had as I was eating the dough is surely worthy of re-visit. Life has a way of presenting challenges – battles – we face to which we either survive or succumb. And it seems that once some major battle...

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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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