Today is the three-year anniversary of when I came to live in my new home with mom and dad. Although that does not sound like a long time, we squeezed a lifetime together in those days. It is also the one-month anniversary of my passing.

This morning mom and dad visited the Compassionate Dharma Cloud Monastery along Highway 285, south of Conifer, in Jefferson County, Colorado.

They burned incense for me and their departed friend, NancyP, who passed a few months ago after a long illness. As the incense burned and the mist intensified, mom offered prayers to Avalokita (Quan Yin) in our names.

Left, the packet dad made to carry a bundle of incense for me. The drawing on the paper is a Tibetan Dai Ko Myo, symbol of divine healing.

Right, mom prays in the fog.