Megan Lacy

I'm getting ready to go on the radio here in Austin - KOOP 91.7FM - with my friend, Rush K. Evans III, and I'm really looking forward to it ✨

There was a time in my life when I would have been wrecked with anxiety, sure I would fail this test, so what's different now?  I think I'm finally realizing how each moment is just…a moment.  

A drop of expression.  
Not a defining execution.  
What a concept.

I wanted to share my setlist and lyrics for the songs I'm singing today, and that's it.  See ya out there 😘
 

SETLI…

No one listens to albums anymore.

There's no time.

Our proclivity has moved from listening to watching, and from watching to looking, and from looking to staring, dead eyed at whatever we're pointed toward. 

Running in place.

Strange, yet somehow completely normal.

I'm not blaming anyone - I don't listen to albums either. 

I watch Netflix.  I binge eat potato chips, and I wonder what's becoming of me.

Then, once in a while, I wake up again, briefly, and imagine and wonder and create and explore.

I'm lucky that…

Everyone has access to it.

It is an infinite resource.

People don’t see it, and it’s literally everywhere.

When it finally is recognized, it has the potential to become the most effective tool in your life.

We are entering a new and unique reality. You can feel that. Can’t you?

Science is merging with magic, and time (as we know it) is reshaping. Your imagination is a vehicle that can take you anywhere.

And the road? The road is how your imagination will get you there.

Let me tell you a story.

Once upon a time…

I was stuck.

I wanted something so bad, but my linear thinking made it impossible for me to move, let alone to move in a direction that would actually get me where I want to go.

So I stalled out.

Last year was a heck of a year.
ALL THE THINGS came up. (For details you can read my blog entry down below 👇 titled, Sincerely, 2023.)

I was being uncomfortably directed by the Universe to look at everything, and either let go, reshape, or allow it dissolve into mySelf to become a part of my expression.

I lost my social…

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WHAT IS PRESENT MOMENT AWARENESS?

I remember some of the first times I heard people talking about presence, I just couldn’t really understand the depth of their words.  The idea was there, but it felt like vapor - it had to be more than what I was thinking, otherwise it wouldn't be a topic of conversation.

At the time I was identified with my thinking mind, believing that I was the accumulation of all my thoughts and experiences.

Presence is an experience.  It is not possible to understand from inside the…

There’s something called “space consciousness”. This is when you become aware of the space that you are.

The first time I truly recognized space (something the mind cannot comprehend) I awoke from my programmed state.  I was stone cold sober, and I have never felt more alive.

I BECAME AWARE OF, AND PRESENT IN, THE ETERNAL DIMENSION.

You should try it.

Right now you’re either interested in what I’m saying, or you’re completely identified with your mind, casting judgments on this line of contemplation, and…

Self-Actualization - what a luxurious idea. 

In case you didn’t know, though, it is included on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.  It’s at the tippy top of the pyramid, and it feels like it could just be an afterthought - something only trust fund spiritual gurus of SoCal could pretend to experience. 

Maybe that’s right.

But maybe it really is something to consider as we map out our lives, and move forward toward the vision of ourselves within an emerging new world.

SELF-ACTUALIZATION IS THE DISCOVERY AND…

There's always a gap before entering a new chapter.

Turn the page.

Re center your eyesight on the message.

Recently I traveled to Austin to finish a full length Alt/Country record I started in early 2022.  I played a songwriter festival, and a few other shows around town.  My network has dwindled.  My performances were not great. On my two day drive home I felt exhausted, moody, scared, let down.  

I have a habit of holding things up high and developing more meaning around them than what's actually sustainable…

Finally.  Here is a moment of relief.  

It's been a difficult year.  

I've let go of so much.  The challenge seemed almost impossible at first, but I'm really beginning to understand how reality likes to work. 

You don't keep anything in the end, so what is the point of holding on to everything until then?  Especially when the things you're holding onto aren't even real, or essential to experiencing joy, love, peace, or the fulfillment inherent in truly living life.

PART I

In November 2022 my partner and I moved…

On February 22, 2023, my longtime sister/friend - a woman I've shared endless support and humor with over the past 18 years - wrecked her car into the back of a box truck driving home to Truckee on Highway 80.  Nobody seemed to know if she would live or die, and if she lived, how she would come back from it - a traumatic brain injury holds so many unknowns.  It was a fragile first week, I checked in with her husband as often as I could to try to fill in the picture with any new information.  Nothing…