Thank you for sharing Meghan with us. She has an extraordinarily beautiful spirit that has made a difference.
Whether she is in this world or the next, she has touched the world and left her loving imprint in a powerful way. I pray that she is only in hiding and will be able to come back to your life, but I have lived in that world where the fear is based in reality.
Meghan has touched my heart today and for that I thank you and her.
She teaches me that we don’t know what tomorrow will bring, and by doing what we can today to love those around us to the best of our ability that, maybe if we are lucky, we can touch the heart of strangers even from a distance. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
She sounds like an extraordinary human being. Knowing what loss is like it made me cry. I hope she is still alive but if not I hope she is in a better place
Chris, while I sent this to the NYT, the NY ‘Times’ seems to be blocking this “War Ginning” information:
IMHO, “Fight Like Hell” is the ‘call code word’ for the possible involvement of any alt-right coup d’état attempt by portions of the U. S. military.
While this might well seem hyperbolic, even paranoid, the media’s apparent ‘messaging’ this week, particularly by former Admiral James Stavridis, former SACEUR NATO, and current Managing Director of the global weapons investment firm the Carlyle Group’s involvement in the Defense Industry, qua. “Merchants of Death”, seems to be predicated/signalling the terms and conditions of eliminating the weaker of the three current, but conflicted possible Empires.
Admiral James Stavridis’s near saturation broadcasting of the “seven times greater” troop levels of ships, sailors, aircraft, pilots, special services, and other weapons from the ‘four minute NPR’ radio ‘messaging’ regrading his position as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations prepare to meet this week in Madrid presents shockingly provocative fodder with respect to being ‘War inducing’.
Admiral’s Quote: trying to down play his own words, “The War Plans are very specific”
The full transcript to the Admiral’s broadcast message should be considered akin to Hearst’s message in 1898; “Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”
But in this case on 6/29/2022, Stavridis seems to be saying, “Please remain. You furnish the radio broadcast and I’ll furnish the war.”
There has ‘So Far’ been no transcript released by NPR, but the Admiral’s speech is still available at NPR:
Adm. Stravidis’s audio should be clicked on the 4minute and 54 second NPR interview!
You may want to listen more than once to understand his use of Trump’s “We’ve got to fight like hell” and reference of “War Plans” by a ‘former’ (not acting) Admiral!
Is anyone in the ‘Anti-War’ or ‘Anti-Empire’ community AWAKE to this obvious “Quiet American” War and Empire plan??
I realize I'm trying to continue the conversation with Meghan, in denial of her disappearance. That's how compelling you made her. That said ...
I disliked Hemingway too, until I read that he said he had been in love with a cat, with certain cats. He was serious. Maybe he was a victim as well as a perpetrator of the cult of stoic, armed masculinity. Well, certainly he was a victim as a gun suicide, himself.
Terrific account of this tragedy. I'm familiar with a number of the locations noted, which makes it hit home. Many years ago I lived in Troy, NY, and I knew and visited people in Chatham, NJ. Really humanizes the victim, as do the references to the novelists and essayists Chris Hedges discussed with her. (Interestingly, one of the cable news outlets ran a story last night about the still-unsolved 1995 disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit, a young TV reporter in Mason City, Iowa, not far from my home town. Disturbing stuff, no question.)
I never knew of this woman, but now I know her, thanks to you! If she is no longer to be with us, she will be missed by all whose lives were changed by her life and her actions. Thank you.
Chris: Thank you for so perfectly capturing my friend Meghan, including examples of the tiny details that made her such a consistently extraordinary being.
During the pandemic we spoke of offering a workshop on The Art of Grieving in which Meghan would offer prompts to support written expression and I would present practices to encourage visual depictions of our individual and collective losses. Unfortunately, we never completed our plans for this series of healing workshops. And now during a time of heightened and intentional
violence towards women and anyone deemed “other”, I mourn the disappearance of a vibrant and caring friend and committed lover of our beleaguered planet.
I once saw Meghan in a video Q&A session with Hedges at his talk at the Media Sanctuary in Troy. It was immediately apparent, even on video, that she was not only very intelligent but also highly empathic and deeply caring for the material at hand. I can see how Hedges aptly describes her as too vulnerable and open for this world. So sorry to hear of this - (is it too male of me to also note that I found her extremely attractive?)
I know neither you nor her, and am very sad to hear of this. It's hard to send one's best wishes to the unknown friends and family of someone you yourself didn't know. But for what it's worth, I am attempting to.
Thank you for focusing our attention on a sickness and criminality rarely - if ever - given the collective's serious attention it demands. The disappearing of our women from life by demented, obsessed, twisted, deeply sick men. A metaphor for the arrogant, possessive, violent muscularity against the "feminine" (nurturance, tenderness, vital, creative receptivity, life-serving, heart-based relational) witnessed everywhere on every level of the USA's "life"- be it political, economic, corporate, civic, media, environmental or health care - like the cancer it is. It is as if the cold purely self-aggrandizing at whatever cost corporate mentality for possession, control, and profit freed from restraints/regulation has wormed itself into the collective consciousness and become normalized. So now we - the empire - are in Zambia helping it savage its already poor population by touting an Rx of austerity measures while our ever hungry eye is fastened on their own and their neighbors' precious metals. Chilling aggressiveness. Soulless. But, still a needed 'no' is slowly emerging.Mexican women rise more and more each year in greater numbers on the streets protesting the culture's (and government's) willingness to accept (ignore) the sizable, awful reality of the twisted scorching domineering without restraint masculinity behind each one of their 'disappeared women'.
Dark times indeed when such things (whatever it was, it wasn't good) happen to such people.We need to hold on to all of them we can. It's an existential thing for us.
My sympathies on the loss of your friend. I do question the framing of the issue, however. The epidemic of male violence against other men is in fact far far worse. Which would suggest the issue is not one of misogyny, but one of--quelle horreur--innate biological differences between the sexes.
This is a great essay on Meghan and on the problem in general. It is very sad that it needs to be written and widely read. I can only wonder where the species Homo sapiens is headed.
Thank you for sharing Meghan with us. She has an extraordinarily beautiful spirit that has made a difference.
Whether she is in this world or the next, she has touched the world and left her loving imprint in a powerful way. I pray that she is only in hiding and will be able to come back to your life, but I have lived in that world where the fear is based in reality.
Meghan has touched my heart today and for that I thank you and her.
She teaches me that we don’t know what tomorrow will bring, and by doing what we can today to love those around us to the best of our ability that, maybe if we are lucky, we can touch the heart of strangers even from a distance. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
She sounds like an extraordinary human being. Knowing what loss is like it made me cry. I hope she is still alive but if not I hope she is in a better place
Chris, while I sent this to the NYT, the NY ‘Times’ seems to be blocking this “War Ginning” information:
IMHO, “Fight Like Hell” is the ‘call code word’ for the possible involvement of any alt-right coup d’état attempt by portions of the U. S. military.
While this might well seem hyperbolic, even paranoid, the media’s apparent ‘messaging’ this week, particularly by former Admiral James Stavridis, former SACEUR NATO, and current Managing Director of the global weapons investment firm the Carlyle Group’s involvement in the Defense Industry, qua. “Merchants of Death”, seems to be predicated/signalling the terms and conditions of eliminating the weaker of the three current, but conflicted possible Empires.
Admiral James Stavridis’s near saturation broadcasting of the “seven times greater” troop levels of ships, sailors, aircraft, pilots, special services, and other weapons from the ‘four minute NPR’ radio ‘messaging’ regrading his position as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations prepare to meet this week in Madrid presents shockingly provocative fodder with respect to being ‘War inducing’.
Admiral’s Quote: trying to down play his own words, “The War Plans are very specific”
The full transcript to the Admiral’s broadcast message should be considered akin to Hearst’s message in 1898; “Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”
But in this case on 6/29/2022, Stavridis seems to be saying, “Please remain. You furnish the radio broadcast and I’ll furnish the war.”
There has ‘So Far’ been no transcript released by NPR, but the Admiral’s speech is still available at NPR:
https://admiralstav.com/news/
Adm. Stravidis’s audio should be clicked on the 4minute and 54 second NPR interview!
You may want to listen more than once to understand his use of Trump’s “We’ve got to fight like hell” and reference of “War Plans” by a ‘former’ (not acting) Admiral!
Is anyone in the ‘Anti-War’ or ‘Anti-Empire’ community AWAKE to this obvious “Quiet American” War and Empire plan??
I realize I'm trying to continue the conversation with Meghan, in denial of her disappearance. That's how compelling you made her. That said ...
I disliked Hemingway too, until I read that he said he had been in love with a cat, with certain cats. He was serious. Maybe he was a victim as well as a perpetrator of the cult of stoic, armed masculinity. Well, certainly he was a victim as a gun suicide, himself.
I was too busy to read this...but glad I did.
Terrific account of this tragedy. I'm familiar with a number of the locations noted, which makes it hit home. Many years ago I lived in Troy, NY, and I knew and visited people in Chatham, NJ. Really humanizes the victim, as do the references to the novelists and essayists Chris Hedges discussed with her. (Interestingly, one of the cable news outlets ran a story last night about the still-unsolved 1995 disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit, a young TV reporter in Mason City, Iowa, not far from my home town. Disturbing stuff, no question.)
I never knew of this woman, but now I know her, thanks to you! If she is no longer to be with us, she will be missed by all whose lives were changed by her life and her actions. Thank you.
My heart is broken...
Chris: Thank you for so perfectly capturing my friend Meghan, including examples of the tiny details that made her such a consistently extraordinary being.
During the pandemic we spoke of offering a workshop on The Art of Grieving in which Meghan would offer prompts to support written expression and I would present practices to encourage visual depictions of our individual and collective losses. Unfortunately, we never completed our plans for this series of healing workshops. And now during a time of heightened and intentional
violence towards women and anyone deemed “other”, I mourn the disappearance of a vibrant and caring friend and committed lover of our beleaguered planet.
I once saw Meghan in a video Q&A session with Hedges at his talk at the Media Sanctuary in Troy. It was immediately apparent, even on video, that she was not only very intelligent but also highly empathic and deeply caring for the material at hand. I can see how Hedges aptly describes her as too vulnerable and open for this world. So sorry to hear of this - (is it too male of me to also note that I found her extremely attractive?)
I know neither you nor her, and am very sad to hear of this. It's hard to send one's best wishes to the unknown friends and family of someone you yourself didn't know. But for what it's worth, I am attempting to.
Thank you for focusing our attention on a sickness and criminality rarely - if ever - given the collective's serious attention it demands. The disappearing of our women from life by demented, obsessed, twisted, deeply sick men. A metaphor for the arrogant, possessive, violent muscularity against the "feminine" (nurturance, tenderness, vital, creative receptivity, life-serving, heart-based relational) witnessed everywhere on every level of the USA's "life"- be it political, economic, corporate, civic, media, environmental or health care - like the cancer it is. It is as if the cold purely self-aggrandizing at whatever cost corporate mentality for possession, control, and profit freed from restraints/regulation has wormed itself into the collective consciousness and become normalized. So now we - the empire - are in Zambia helping it savage its already poor population by touting an Rx of austerity measures while our ever hungry eye is fastened on their own and their neighbors' precious metals. Chilling aggressiveness. Soulless. But, still a needed 'no' is slowly emerging.Mexican women rise more and more each year in greater numbers on the streets protesting the culture's (and government's) willingness to accept (ignore) the sizable, awful reality of the twisted scorching domineering without restraint masculinity behind each one of their 'disappeared women'.
Dark times indeed when such things (whatever it was, it wasn't good) happen to such people.We need to hold on to all of them we can. It's an existential thing for us.
My sympathies on the loss of your friend. I do question the framing of the issue, however. The epidemic of male violence against other men is in fact far far worse. Which would suggest the issue is not one of misogyny, but one of--quelle horreur--innate biological differences between the sexes.
This is a great essay on Meghan and on the problem in general. It is very sad that it needs to be written and widely read. I can only wonder where the species Homo sapiens is headed.
I'm so sorry to hear this. What a huge loss for the earth.