After I read Daily Good:
Group flow: How teamwork can foster creativity, by R. Keith Sawyer a part of the article caught my attention and resonated with how I "feel" when I am in my flow at JFK: "Famed psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihaly coined the term “flow” to describe a particular state of heightened consciousness—what some people refer to as being “in the zone.” [. . .] at their peak when they experience “a unified flowing from one moment to the next [. . .] a loss of self-consciousness, and they get so absorbed in the task that they lose track of time."

During the time we have been in the flow to think about designing and creating our ritual my thoughts went back to my parents and their funerals I attended and took part in. I had thought at the time my pain of losing them would never stop, but then as I have moved forward on my journey the realization has come to me that they are still here within me, just not in the ordinary world. Their flow has shifted just as mine has and asking my kids to write their own remembrance of me has brought certain awareness to them of what we all mean to each other in the here and now in our "zone". My hope is that this will bring healing to my family over my separation and encourage them to cherish the time we have together in this lifetime by moving forward with more heightened consciousness.