Your art focuses my days to the point that I can bear them, and gives me the strength so to do. You model compassion in ways I aspire to. You are so astonishingly generous with your time and with the beauty in your life (and with its sadnesses), and I love your storytelling.

Thank you specifically for taking the time to teach me and to talk to me; it was an unalloyed pleasure to meet you & talk & I do so hope we will get to do so again.