Category Archives: Explorations

Echos of home

Posted on September 8, 2021 by meaghancc

The cool Pacific fog rolled over the sandy dunes and tall oat grasses, the ice plants punctuating the hills with their fuchsia and golden blooms. We walked side by side, sharing snippets of our lives. From the verdant Midwest to … Continue reading →

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Birthday flowers

Posted on September 8, 2021 by meaghancc

Maybe it was my eighth birthday, perhaps seventh. My older brother and I were born on the same day in May, three years apart. Talk about precision. Always having to share a birthday party, a birthday cake, in particular, got … Continue reading →

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Hope.

Posted on August 31, 2021 by meaghancc

Hope. An anticipation. A state of being. A longing for. A thought. A wish that something occurs or a phase shifts or a person changes. Even if it seems utterly impossible. Especially if it seems utterly impossible. Hope. A feeling … Continue reading →

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This isn’t about giving up, it’s about letting go

Posted on August 31, 2021 by meaghancc

Sometimes, there seems to be an argument, perhaps simply an exchange, about who or what lets go. Who is the protagonist of the story, the narrator, the one in charge who is mapping her own path. Forging, digging, carving, sinking, … Continue reading →

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Miss Whirly Pop

Posted on August 30, 2021 by meaghancc

I’ve been around for generations, millennia really. As long as fire was a thing and corn was a thing and people were a thing and people needing to eat corn to live was a thing. Sure, those golden or maroon … Continue reading →

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The heart prepares us for life.

Posted on August 4, 2021 by meaghancc

“There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground” -Rumi I sit here, eyes softened looking at the neighbor’s large tree. Maybe an elm, all its delicate branches dangly and floating in the breeze. Today it started, one … Continue reading →

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Bookends.

Posted on July 21, 2021 by meaghancc

It is possible to be hollowed out and filled up at the same time? Is it possible to miss someone so much and yet think they are still here right beside you. Is it possible to cry so much that … Continue reading →

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Deep in the stillness.

Posted on June 16, 2021 by meaghancc

Deep in the stillness, I can hear you speak. A long slow exhale. I can be in right relationship, you and me. Plant and animal. Our tender animal bodies. Animal and earth. I am looking at sound, sound in water. … Continue reading →

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What is the opposite of being alive?

Posted on June 16, 2021 by meaghancc

What is the opposite of being alive? Is it nothing. Is it returning to dust, to metals, to the canyon walls, to the things that accumulate on my window sill. Is it being without a body. Is it being with … Continue reading →

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The end is the beginning. The beginning is the end.

Posted on June 16, 2021 by meaghancc

The end is the beginning. Or the beginning is the end. I’m deeply aware that these hours are the last ones I’ll be as me. Me as I know it. A solo actress. Who reads a book in my pajamas … Continue reading →

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