I got an email from Jackie's husband today to tell me that she can no longer take phone calls. She is only barely awake when she get's her next dose of morphine and doesn't respond to anyone most of the time. She is slipping away. It is sooooo hard on her family. She is the one with the pain to manage, but they are the ones with the breaking hearts.
This is something Jaxx and I have talked about before. About how inhumane it is to keep a person's body alive when they have NO quality of life left. We would not do this to our dogs, or even to our worst enemies. She would get pretty riled up over this. Yet........ what can we do?
Here are a few pics celebrating her art and life. In one she is holding a secret scroll. The one with J behind the table is in Sac where a group of us gave a talk on altering books and book arts. She was so shy, it took a bit of coaxing to get her to do this, and she was so proud afterwards. It is so obvious to everyone that there is something special about her and her work. It was well received. Jackie is the one that really got me started carving my own stamps. She didn't need to buy special knives or products, she used what she had. These stamps were carved into a styrofoam scrap.
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