...my thoughts and prayers are with you both.

to have you there with her as she takes steps to her next journey. You are lucky to be sharing it, many don't or won't or can't. It hurts but in the long run of life you will be blessed more than you can imagine for being there.

I wish you both ease in the transition. Open the window a crack for her, so many of my patients asked for that so I do it routinely although not often anymore since I have not worked in health care for a long time now, just family now.

I felt compelled to respond to you. You have great love, courage and heart as does your wife. I hope it goes easily for her. For you, well you know. Be well and easy with yourself. I wish you peace.

We have been together for only seven years, after being lost to each other for the previous thirty. These seven years have slaked a lifetime's thirst for love, and the inner work we have both done has prepared us well for this.

She has been an artist since the age of five. In the last seven years she worked digitally, using fractal software as the basis for her remarkable visionary art. In our time together she created for 12 hours or more every day, while I provided the necessities of life. She generated a catalogue of over 3,000 finished works. In May she put aside her mouse and Wacom tablet without a whisper of protest, and said her work was complete. She has begun the process of saying goodbye to her friends, both real and virtual.

Thank you for the suggestion of opening the window, it feels right. She has already chosen her transition music, along with a few poems by Hafiz that she would like me to read to her when it's time.

I never expected it to feel like this.

May her journey be peaceful.

May she have safe passage and may you endure the coming loss with grace and dignity.

Thank you for sharing this stunning portrait with us.

of someone who is obviously very loved.

The photo reminds me of the painting of Mona Lisa.

What a lovely representation.

Your words are full of the love and beauty. May light surrounds you both.

both of you. Light and peace. For the beautiful Mrs. Jackalope, and the wonderful man she married.