Memento Mori

[The_jackalope]

9. Thank you for your kind words. Maybe this photo will shed a bit more light on her.

I took this three weeks before her death, one short week before she decided it was over and attempted suicide.



Kathy was the most self-aware person I've ever known. She had spent the previous seven years that we were together working as a digital visionary artist, producing a finished work every single day for those seven years. She felt intimately connected to some higher awareness. In this photo she had recently stopped doing art, saying simply, "I've done everything I came here to do." She was completely at peace with biggest decision of her life, and happy to be "going home" at last.

And yes, there's that hint of a smile, in both this portrait and the one you mentioned. I'm pretty sure she knew something we don't.