I knew I would write Raw this year. I didn’t know how many thousands of people would read it.

Jill in front of metal gate laughing

Simple

I knew I would write Raw this year. I didn’t know how many thousands of people would read it.

Thank you.

Wishing you all the peace of mind that brings you to a gentle sleep at night.

My oldest daughter wearing heart necklace

One Love

My youngest daughter wearing heart necklace

One Love

My middle daughter wearing heart necklace

One Love

Jill wearing heart necklace

One Love

U2 – One

One love

One blood

One life

You got to do what you should

One life

With each other

Sisters

Brothers

One life

But we’re not the same

We get to 
Carry each other

Carry each other

One…life

One

Painting by Patricia Gutierrez

Work by Patricia Gutierrez

REM – Everybody Hurts

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,

When you’re sure you’ve had enough of this life, well hang on.

Don’t let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes.

Sometimes everything is wrong.

Now it’s time to sing along.

When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)

When you think you’ve had too much of this life, well hang on.

Everybody hurts.

Take comfort in your friends.

Everybody hurts.

Don’t throw your hand. Oh, no.

Don’t throw your hand.
If you feel like you’re alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you’re on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,

When you think you’ve had too much of this life to hang on.

Well, everybody hurts sometimes, 
Everybody cries.

And everybody hurts sometimes.

And everybody hurts sometimes.

So, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. (repeat & fade)
(Everybody hurts. You are not alone.)

detail of a painting by Slaughter of a man in a tuxedo wearing a flower on lapel

I won’t

The Civil Wars – Poison and Wine

Oh, I don’t love you, but I always will

Oh, I don’t love you, but I always will
I

I don’t love you but I always will
I always will

frog in the leaves, difficult to see

It’s there

The Black Keys – Tighten Up

I wanted love, I needed love,

Most of all, most of all

Someone said true love was dead

And I’m bound to fall, bound to fall

For you

Oh, what can I do?

Yeah..

Jill sitting outside with a black turtleneck sweater on

Black and red

Lauryn Hill  Everything is Everything

…Now, everything is everything

What is meant to be, will be

After winter, must come spring

Change, it comes eventually

Jill in a long haired white wig

Black and White

Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

And deep in my heart the answer it was in me

And I made up my mind to find my own destiny

And deep in my heart the answer it was in me

And I made up my mind to find my own destiny

Cartoon drawing of a couple

Ever after

New Years Resolution

The Spinners – Could It Be I’m Falling In Love

Could it be I’m falling in love (with you baby)

Could it be I’m falling in love (woo)
Could it be I’m falling in love
With you
With you
With you
(With you)
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
My 2 youngest daughters and me at the Wynwood walls in Miami

J. Lucy was missing

My oldest daughter at Wynwood Walls in Miami

My beautiful girl

Hollywood Arts Park

1 + 1+ 1+ 1

Silver ring with no stone designed by Jill and white plastic peace symbol ring

Freedom Ring – designed by Slaughter, Peace Sign

Work of Patricia Gutierrez – http://www.saatchionline.com/profile/249812

Young Circle Arts Park designed by Margi Nothard  http://www.glavovicstudio.com/links.htm

Detail of It’s Just the Beginning – Acrylic on canvas – Jill Slaughter

Pencil drawing of couple – J. Lucy Wallace

Photograph of me and my daughters – Don Parchment  http://www.photoreflect.com/store/store.aspx?p=31682

Reading Raw Live – http://www.artistsdoingbusinessas.com/

Jill speaking about Parental Alienation at Heartcamp The unconference about relationships – http://heartcamp2011.sched.org/event