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 […]
Read moreMoving 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 […]
Read moreA Daughter’s Last Photoshoot Before Cancer’s Finality: Elizabeth Blue
A Daughter’s Last Photoshoot Before Cancer’s Finality: Elizabeth Blue. The amazing photographer, Jade Beall, took hundreds of beautiful photographs of my daughter Elizabeth Blue, in April of 2012, during the luminous time when Elizabeth had finished chemo and before the cancer returned in her brain. Jade wrote a blog post today about her experience of […]
Read moreA Long Journey from the ICU to Hospice – Emails from July, 2012
These entries from my emails and journals from July, 2012, one year ago, tell the story of the hardest period in my daughter’s time of living with cancer. Elizabeth Blue was in the ICU after a recurrence of lymphoma in her brain. Since June 12, 2012, she had had two rounds of chemo which did […]
Read moreA Lifetime – by Elizabeth Blue (poem)
From “Moksha Natya – Liberation Dance: For where but in self-expression do we find the liberation that is the dance of the soul?” by Elizabeth Claire Kurland Meagher (aka Elizabeth Blue) A Lifetime I want, To quote Rumi. I want to say one thousand words of thanks. I want To throw One million rose petals […]
Read moreNew Awareness
A new awareness as i sit at the airport waiting for my flight to visit my daughter Julianna in New York: for years I asked the divine over and over how I could serve to the greatest degree possible, and this is what I’ve been given. Framing it in this way, that Elizabeth’s death can […]
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Luminous Blue 