Today I listen to day 18 of the 30-day Wake-Up Challenge with Adyashanti.

I receive that I do this because I care.  I feel that deeply, how we care, care about ourselves, family, friends, and the wider world we share.

We’re not alone; we’re interdependent.

In that, I feel the pain of others, pain I can’t diminish for another, so the illness and possible loss of a parent magnified by a time when they can’t be seen or touched.

I sit with that today, with tears of letting go, of liquid love as I remember the passing of my own parents, and a pain that will always be part of me as I carve deeper paths into the ground of Love we share.