'Our Beautiful Life in the Wilderness is Over. How Can I Do This to My Kids?'

This is an opportunity, not a tragedy.

Heartless (1980), Dorothea Tanning

Dear Polly,

These seven years since I met my husband have been an absolute turbulent disaster, and now in the past few months everything seems to finally be crashing down around us. I loved him the moment I met him. He was (and still is) a beautiful artistic dreamer, stubborn and brave and impulsive and creative and wild…