This work did not come from answers. It came from what remained unresolved, from living inside moments where accountability never arrived, where silence carried more weight than explanation, and where endurance was required without recognition.

From the House of MsDL exists because some experiences do not move on simply because time passes. Betrayal does not always announce itself. Trust does not always return. Forgiveness is not always possible. Grief is not limited to loss through death. Much of what shapes us happens quietly, without witnesses, and without closure.

I did not create this work to reconcile those things or to offer solutions. I created it to make room for what continues when resolution does not come, and for what remains present even after the moment has passed.

I do not believe everything needs to be processed publicly. I do not believe pain requires performance to be valid. And I do not believe presence must explain itself to be real. What I create does not attempt to fix what others refuse to face. It does not ask for confrontation, healing, or transformation. It exists alongside what simply is.

The unseen is not a category to me. They are part of life. They are the ones who carry unanswered questions, unreturned responsibility, quiet grief, emotional fatigue, and long stretches of endurance that no one marks or remembers. When something still needs holding, even when no one noticed, this work remains.

I stay mostly out of view by design. Not because the story is unfinished, but because the work does not require my visibility to function. What matters is that it holds.

Everything is connected. Some things arrive without explanation, but never without meaning.

Ms. D LaShelle
Still here
From the House of MsDL