This picture is a reminder of the importance of expressing your love and difficulties while all family members are alive. As we take in this poignant scene, we can imagine the mother feeling the weight of this simple, beautiful moment—a memory she hopes her daughter will carry with her. There’s something timeless in their gaze, as though they are seeing the world as it once was, when her dad was with them.

The silence is profound, almost sacred, and the two sit in a kind of quiet communion with the earth, as they grieve feeling both its vastness and its solitude.