Robert Pasick | Contributor

Lu, today I am in Spain with our boy, Adam, who thrives in this ancient culture.

Seville is a city of beauty and frivolity. Catholicism pervades — the images of the Virgin are everywhere: on doors, on walls, in fountains on altars.

You’d love it: dogs roam loose and poop wherever they want. The sun shines daily; you would find many spots to catch warm rays.

I enjoy being with Adam, but I know you miss him.

Do you have images of him in your mind, or do you only think of him when he returns home, and you smell him?

When do you first pick up his scent? When he drives down the block? Or maybe earlier, when he arrives at the airport? Or is it that last moment, when he is about to open the garage door?

With children, we never need reminders: their presence is with us always, our DNA connected to theirs with an invisible thread only a parent can sense — around the corner, down the block, across the Great lakes and oceans.

Woven through time and space by love.

What examples do you have of a special connection or “feeling” of connection to your children even though you may be apart?

Robert Pasick is a psychologist, author and executive coach living in Ann Arbor. He can be contacted at rob@leadersconnect.com. You can read more about his work at www.readthespirit.com/book-for-dog-lovers or at http://www.robertpasick.com.