There are people in your life right now, in this moment, participating in beauty.   The beautiful project is about noticing the beauty of the everyday people in our communities and telling their story.  Chaos and the ugly are swirling around us in the media. However, normal people living their lives and bettering their communities are the opposite of that chaos.  Let's take back the word beautiful.  Beauty doesn’t mean perfection.  It doesn’t mean thin, cool or rich.  It has nothing to do with what society has manufactured to be pretty.  Pretty things are all about symmetry and perfection.  Beautiful things are developed by distinguishing themselves from the background through difference.  In art difference is beauty.  Wouldn't it be nice if in life difference was beauty? You see beauty in the lines in your Grandma's face, or the stretch marks on your wife's pregnant belly.  My way of combating all the ugly I see in the world constantly is to offer up the beautiful as contrast.  It is time to recognize and elevate everyday people to the status previously reserved for the famous.  Throwing out the idea that pretty is what we strive for and taking a more nuanced look at the beautiful moments all around us. Forget pretty, be Beautiful.