quoth the raven (XXIX):

take a quiet hour - either really late or really early - and sit on your favourite place, in the every day living room. and with your eyes wide open, facing the silence, remember the last people you've lost. summon to the room their gestures, their faces, their smells, their voices.
sooner or later, you'll be the ones attending to that mental gathering, and it's host, someone who will miss you. then get up and pour some tea of coffee. and go to work.

by filipe nunes vicente in mar salgado, odi et amo LXXXI.