As this 4 year anniversary of my daughter Elizabeth’s death was approaching, I could feel the shimmering of grief in and around everything. I’ve been getting better and better at learning how to take care of myself, and I realized a few days ago that doing a ritual for Elizabeth with flowers and ashes on Haleakala […]
Read more3rd Anniversary – in Photos (2nd try!)
The photos I intended did not make it the first time, so I’m doing this again! I’m not inspired to write much today, but want to share a beautiful day of remembering, celebrating and loving Elizabeth. My mom, sister, dear friend Victoria (Elizabeth’s godmother) and I gathered with food and drink and created altars and […]
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Summer Squash – poem by Elizabeth Blue
Summer Squash by Elizabeth Blue, 9/1/08, age 18 (a class assignment) When the sun grows full and ripe in the morning sky. When the cracked Earth begins to soften and thaw. It is then that I shall emerge from the hard shell of my birth My pod. My seed. It is then that I shall […]
Read moreA Cancer Poem – by Elizabeth Blue
A Cancer Poem written by Elizabeth Blue during her treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma, 2012 As I pray to the goddesses of white blood cells to increase my cell counts so I won’t get sick. Won’t get a fever and go to the hospital. It becomes more apparent to me than ever: that gentle hand of […]
Read moreElizabeth Blue – the photoshoot by Jade Beall (part 1)
Click on any image to see them larger. These are just a few of the photos taken by the amazing artist Jade Beall, of the Beautiful Bodies Project, in April of 2012, when Elizabeth was in remission from cancer. She had finished 6 chemo treatments, and we were celebrating that she had no sign of […]
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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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Elizabeth Blue’s Life in Pictures
As we move closer to the one year anniversary of my daughter Elizabeth’s death, on September 23, she is very present with me, giving me many messages and signs that she is close. I will share more of that in another post. For now – I am getting the message that it is time to […]
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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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Luminous Blue 