life:

On this day in 1948 Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic. 

In a career spanning more than two decades, photographer Margaret Bourke-White fearlessly documented many facets of the human experience. Her astonishing portfolio ranged from trailblazing assignments in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s, to capturing the horrors of the Buchenwald concentration camp upon its liberation in 1945. And Bourke-White’s focus on humanitarian issues — showcased in these stunning images of Mohandas Gandhi in India — was equally renowned. 

Pictured here in 1946, the leader sits next to a spinning wheel, a device used to make yarn or thread; the image came to symbolize Indian self sufficiency — and thus independence from British rule.

(see more — Gandhi: Glimpses of a Legend)

I have to re-visit the body …

“I can hear the beer bottles hitting the table beside my grandfather’s bed. There is no other sound like beer bottles bouncing off each other. The pitch tells me how full they are, how empty they become. They clank together. Some nights they fall to the floor. I pretend I am asleep as my grandfather steps over me. He is stumbling to the toilet. I hear him urinate. I hear his grunting and rasping, old man sounds.  I am still, like death, barely breathing. I am trying to be invisible. It is so intense, terrifying that I feel myself crack, split. I detach myself from myself. I imagine I am somewhere else. I am someone else. It is no longer me on that cold floor. It is some other little girl.”

This is the true “one purr sent” or 1% … send it to anyone you know that is down. oppressed, beaten up by the world … it is a message of hope, of faith … not religious faith but faith in yourself … don’t quit … get back up … use your hate to motivate !

- a busker … now missing his wallet

hiding … where it is safe …

The knock out punch …

hiding the body …