Are you carrying a loss you don't know what to do with — especially as Mother's Day or Father's Day gets closer?

I offer Gravestone Tending Sessions at Cedar Park Cemetery in Hudson, NY — a one-hour ritual of remembrance for anyone who wants to honor a loved one, newly gone or long dead.

Here's what we do together:

• Clean the gravestone together (I bring everything — all the right supplies, all the knowledge)

• Set a simple seasonal altar (you can bring a photo, a flower, something that was theirs)

• I walk you through a memory ritual — prompts, stories, witness

• We sit with them for a while — chairs provided, light refreshments too

• You leave with before and after photos, a new skill, and the feeling of having actually done something

This is for you if: you have a loved one buried in Cedar Park, you've been meaning to go but can't face it alone, you want to mark an anniversary or a holiday with something real, or you simply want their grave to be clean and their story to be told.

$77 per session.

Sessions are available this spring, around Mother's Day and Father's Day — a season when this particular ache tends to be loudest. Spots are limited.

You don't have to do this alone. You don't have to keep putting it off.