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Lucia Maya’s Email Journey

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Preparing and Offering Her Body

When Elizabeth died, I was as well prepared as I could be. She had been at home, my home, in hospice care for almost two months, and I was able to be with her that entire time, letting go of almost everything else for that time.  It was heartbreakingly sad and breathtakingly beautiful – the […]

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Elizabeth Blue, Jade Beall, Elizabeth Meagher
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Leaving Her Body…

                        One year ago today, the email below I sent to our close friends and family. Now I share it here, with those of you who have joined me on this transformative, healing journey. As I prepared for this first anniversary of my daughter […]

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Slowing Down – emails from the depths, September, 2012

Slowing Way Down Some of the last emails I sent, about my older daughter Elizabeth Blue’s journey towards the ultimate release, from the two weeks before her transition last year.  September 14, 2012 Dear Ones, things here are slowing waaay down.  No words now, sometimes nodding or shaking her head in response to a question, […]

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Elizabeth Blue, Elizabeth Meagher, Zelie Duvauchelle, hospice
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Some Days with Elizabeth Blue…

Some Days with Elizabeth Preface:  I am struggling a bit this week, the week leading to the first year anniversary of my daughter Elizabeth’s death.  Partly for the obvious reasons – the intensity of this loss resounding in my body and mind and spirit to a degree that at times I can’t remember the simplest […]

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Hospice – last week of August, 2012

Slipping Closer to the Edge… These writings are from about a month before my daughter Elizabeth Blue died.  She was at home and needing 24 hour care, having had a stroke following unsuccessful surgery and chemo to remove the cancer that had spread to her brain. She was in a peaceful state of grace that […]

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Assumptions About Life and Death

Assumptions:  things that are accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof There are many things we live with as givens, as assumptions that we don’t even know we believe.  Even when we do our best to live with great awareness and consciousness, they still creep in, so universally accepted in our world, that […]

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Moving Into Acceptance and Enlightenment

Moving Into Acceptance and Enlightenment Early August, 2012: Emails and other writings from Lucia Maya These are emails I wrote from the second week after my 22 year old daughter, Elizabeth Blue, came home from the hospital under hospice care last summer.  She arrived at my house and we quickly settled into a routine of […]

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Moving Into Grace – With Hospice

This week it has been one year since my daughter Elizabeth had 2 brain surgeries. The first one, July 19, 2012, we hoped would remove the cancer from her brain, and the second on July 20 was done to save her life (for a time, anyway), as her brain had started to swell, and the […]

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