Thank you so, so much for this beautiful submission, my friend. I hope you don't mind...I changed your photos (top one in size, others from offset to inline) because this is what Medium prefers for possible curation. I also added descriptions to the Alt Text (for visually impaired, also in keeping with Medium's preferences).

I love offset pics, too, but apparently they don't load well on phones and something like 80% of Medium's readers are using phones!!

All of this is in my submission guidelines. If you'd like to take a peek, there might be a few other tidbits in there. I want to give writers on my pubs the best chance of being curated. :)

Thank you for sharing this lovely story on Hope, Healing and Humour. I'm honoured that you chose this story to submit; it's absolutely wonderful. Thank you!