Awww, thank you, thank you, for this.
Niko is very much a part of my prayer life, along with internet friends I've never met in real life (yes, I remember you @myjob and your family and your lost brothers and your busy life in the fishing boat as I meander the meadows with my dogs, feeling useless and unproductive, esp compared to the accomplished and hardworking people like you).
I love your belief that our lost loved ones are actually with us.
And Memory is Time Travel
Now I'm trying to remember where you wrote that before. Was it in a hive post?
Now I'm eager to head off on that lonely dog walk.
Oh wait. It rained in the night. The meadow is off limits for now...
"I believe in the community of saints" - that's part of the daily Rosary.
And I summon them to join me in my walk, in my petitions, my hymns of praise to whatever Creator God may be at work, setting the first atom into motion, making the first electron spin....