catharsis in all shapes and forms.

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.” - Leonardo da Vinci

Switzerland by Marco Schnyder

there are people who love and lose their whole life and love and gain. the outcomes can really be completely the same and depend wholeheartedly on the individual’s response to love. i’m the loser kind.

hello? who the fuck added blog to my username

Art by Maria Nguyen

Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first black female judge in the New York State Court of Appeals and the first female Muslim judge in the United States, was found dead on April 12, 2017. Sheila Abdus-Salaam was born Sheila Turner to working-class parents in Washington DC on March 14, 1952. Her inspiration to become a lawyer came from the TV shows she loved as a girl and from Frankie Muse Freeman, a civil rights activist and lawyer, who visited her school. Among her many accomplishments, Sheila Abdus-Salaam made the groundbreaking decision in a case that allowed LGBT parents to pursue equal parenting rights.  Lacking a final statement from a medical examiner or a suicide note, the police and the media have still been quick to label her death a suicide, citing that she was ‘stressed at work.’ We can only wait for further investigation and hope that she receives as much justice in death as she offered to the world in life. For the time being, until we know the results of the investigation, SAY HER NAME.

Sheila Abdus-Salaam.

The Lilac Fairy 

by Mary Cicely Barker

English Garden

Silent All These Years  by Maria McGinley

Cathy Layzell (South African, b. 1972, Cape Town, South Africa) - Illusion, Black River, 2016 from Wilderness exhibition  Paintings: Oil on Canvas  

Arlene Vidor (American, b. Chicago, IL, USA) - 1: Conjuring Gladys  2: Waiting for Treatment from Magic exhibition  Photography