I’ve started a project with my nieces, nephews, and cousins across Canada. They’re photographing nature with no humans, no buildings, no roads. Just the pure, unclaimed love of the natural world. I’m framing their images on my walls, and it is already changing me. It feels like love in action. I no longer feel alone in my tiny apartment. I can feel my mind, body, and soul healing. I’m blown away by how deeply community can help you heal.
And now, as all amazing things do, the project is taking on a life of its own. Friends, young and old are joining in. Community centers are reaching out. A minister wants to share it with their congregation. A magazine has asked to feature it in their next edition. An urban planner is even leaning in. Can you imagine if a city took this on? Bye bye photo stock images from Pottery Barn. The community has arrived. We snap beauty and hang it on our walls. Everywhere these images appear, people feel it. A vibration of love, a remembering, a softening. Tiny sparks of healing ripple through their bodies, gentle proof that something tender and true is growing among us.
For some, these photos reflect the land they left behind, places they may never return to. For others, they offer a way to see beauty in the home they are learning to belong to now. These images become a bridge. A grounding. A way for us to feel connected to the world around us and to one another.
Want to see the project, the photos, and the story behind it? Come with me on this journey. Beauty is everywhere, and it’s waiting for us to notice.
Here is the project in detail.