The departure of one beloved begets the most astonishing (yet often painful) transformations within us. All that our expectations of ongoing relation obscured is set afire and brought forth to consciousness.

Caught within this burgeoning conflagration, their silence becomes a spiritual evocation, and their inaccessibility comprises a spiritual accelerant that catalyzes and accentuates the powers of memory while illuminating our deepest hidden senses of relation.

Thus the one departed is transformed and becomes at once teacher, parent, child, judge, and … in many cases… angel.