"Do we need their permission to let them go?

Surely they gave us that in dying."
HEALING AFTER LOSS, June 18th Meditation
Martha Hickman

'Nothing could stop you.
Not the best day. Not the quiet. Not the rocking ocean.
You went on with your dying.
~ Mark Strand

"How they went on with their business, the dying. They knew we were there. They loved us, wished to spare us the pain. Yes, they would miss us. But their eyes were already on another landscape, and we saw them pulling away....

"Perhaps they need our permission to be fully at ease with their departure."

'That's Dad's Birthday' rolled off my tongue, then rolled back over me like a tsunami.

Every day is the day to give permission. But lots of times the smack down comes with out permission.
(RedTailDog)

"Now that they are gone, do we need to feel abandoned?
No reason to. They love us still. They have reached a destination."

On way to Peter Pan for Naomi's 'Key Day'