Wherever you are,

whatever threshold you are standing upon, allow yourself to become still.

Feel the breath enter.

Feel it leave.

There is a place beneath words, beneath memory, beneath time—

and it is from this place that we speak today.

Today, we speak of goodbye.

Not the goodbye of loss, but the goodbye of return.

When a soul passes from our sight, we are not witnessing an ending— we are witnessing a veil thinning.

We began in love.

And so we release in love.