A Charm for Someone You Love

There are times when you cannot be with someone who needs you. You are here and they are there, and you want to do something with that gap even though you cannot close it. Here's something that might help. Find a quiet moment. Think of the person, not the worry, just them. Their face, their voice, the feeling of being in the same room as them. Then say this, for them: I am thinking of you. You are not alone. Someone who knows you well is in your corner. You do not have to feel it for it to be there. It is there. You can write it and send it. You can say it aloud in a room they are not in. You can hold it for a moment before you go back to your day. It is not nothing. It is something that has always been done, by people who could not be there, for the ones they loved.