Ancient themes of loss and return are at play in the form of my father who was “lost” in WWII.  After a lifetime of sorrow I see his smile in a little boy happily picking up leaves and giving them to his mother during a day of mindfulness and write of this experience in the Mindfulness Bell:

http://www.mindfulnessbell.org/articles/mb35.pdf

When the cover appears scroll down to page 45.