After visiting my Dad in the hospital, I made my way back to the temple for the evening tsog. It's a ceremony where we make food offerings, but by the time they're really offered the prayers have transformed them into wisdom nectar.

In any case, we offer this practice at the temple twice a day. We offer it for the benefit of all suffering beings, but we also read aloud the names of anyone who has been entered in our prayer book (you can request prayers online at our website too! See the link to KPC Maryland on this page.). So I kept Dad in my prayers as we practiced...