Absence Podcast: Absence is a essay from Ghosts of Parenting, exploring how absence lives quietly alongside love, care, and responsibility. This episode names the subtle ways parents are present and missing at the same time, physically, emotionally, and across years, and how this becomes a structural part of parenting rather than a personal failure. It reflects on separation, limitation, and the future carried inside everyday moments, offering language for an experience most parents already know but rarely see clearly. This is not advice or guidance, just a calm, honest recognition of absence as one of the lived conditions of raising a child.