Category Archives: Explorations

The grand arc

Posted on November 9, 2021 by meaghancc

I was listening to a podcast this week – “grief is a sneaky bitch” – where john a. powell was reflecting on his life, the work, and why we are where we are, disconnected yet yearning for connection, finding a … Continue reading →

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Purgatory

Posted on November 9, 2021 by meaghancc

How many times have you been in purgatory?In the doorwayIn the tube of the PET/CTIn the space before reaching 10,000 feetIn the hold on the phone with a credit card companyIn the time between turning the lights off and falling … Continue reading →

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GG’s hands

Posted on November 9, 2021 by meaghancc

We were sitting there, side by side, at the scratched up wooden kitchen table at 604 S. Hibbard. Mail, tea cups, paper towels used then folded in half to be used again at each placemat. It was an afternoon in … Continue reading →

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Dad was Dad.

Posted on October 30, 2021 by meaghancc

Dad was dad and daughter was daughter. Parents were in charge and children were to follow their lead. Dad knew pretty much everything – whether gutter guards are worth it, what percent to put into my 401k, when the check … Continue reading →

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what else am I missing?

Posted on October 30, 2021 by meaghancc

I saw a picture this week that made me pause. That doesn’t happen too much these days, being numb and overstimulated, adrenal glands more and more like shriveled up raisins. The image was of honey bees, sleeping, nestled up together … Continue reading →

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dipping my toe…

Posted on October 30, 2021 by meaghancc

I’ve been dipping my toe into this parenting thing. A casual lurker on a mother’s group here. A voyeur in a parent’s group there. Casually skimming and scrolling, clicking and closing, catching the scents that are carried along the winds … Continue reading →

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Remember to float occasionally…

Posted on October 26, 2021 by meaghancc

Remember to float occasionally. Float between the stories that connect us. Like beads on a necklace, links on the chain, this paver to that, one foot catching up to the other. The stories. They breathe life into a life, any … Continue reading →

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who is she

Posted on October 26, 2021 by meaghancc

My friend Josh asked me how it’s going today, in such a way that he truly wanted to know. I shared that, I don’t know Celeste, my four-month-old daughter. I don’t know her and she doesn’t know me. And yet … Continue reading →

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All that’s holding us together are stories. Stories and compassion.

Posted on September 9, 2021 by meaghancc

This year – in a year of mass casualties – I’ve been reading everything I can get my hands on about death. The dying process, stories from hospice volunteers and the visions that many people have of ancestors calling them … Continue reading →

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Inle Lake at dawn

Posted on September 9, 2021 by meaghancc

I’ve lived a good life. A long life by some estimations, or in some century or another culture. 41 years. As I sit here in the land of maternity leave, I’ve had a lot of time to just be. That’s … Continue reading →

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