Excerpts from Pocket Observatory
voicemails from meg conley
I left Desirrae a message
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I left Desirrae a message

about moving out of the houses we make homes
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Desirrae left me a voicemail about having to leave a house she and her husband made a home. A home that was a kind of witness to their growth as individuals and as a couple. It’s a heartache!

Moving is something we all have to do at one point or another. Often over and over again. But it still just feels monumental. Because…I think…it is.

In these voicemails, Desirrae and I consider the reasons moving our stuff from one space to another often hurts. How do we honor the places that we don’t get to keep?

And I wonder how much did the Disney Channel influence my ideas about what a home should be? (A lot!) (This obviously needs to be a voicemail on its own sometime soon. THE HOLD THOSE DISNEY HOUSES HAD ON ME!)

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Will you leave me a message?

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August 1, 2023
Will you leave me a message?

I’ve been leaving you voicemails on and off over the past few months. It’s this little experiment where I improvise audio for you, thinking aloud, making connections in real time. Which is essentially having a conversation? Although “making connections” in real time does sound cooler.