When my mom passed, I got really good advice from a family friend. Reflecting on his own experience of losing his mother, he shared with me that the moment she died, she was with him forever. When people are alive, you have to physically go to see them in order to spend time with them. But when someone’s no longer alive, you never have to travel to see them. They’re always there. That articulation is exactly what my experience has been. My mom is always with me.
