Beauty Hunter explores how beauty in daily life sparks delight, expands our emotional capacity, and reminds us that the world is still full of mischief and goodness.

You can trudge down the street with a broken heart, and a cat pads over to say hi. Purr.

You look out the window at a gray day, in a deep existential funk, and one singular pink flower makes itself known.

A stranger flashes you a kind smile just when you need it. Oh. Right. Love.

To be clear, we’re not talking strictly botox-and-mascara beauty (though bring that too, if it’s your jam). Beauty Hunter isn’t interested in turning away from crappy feelings.

We make room for sorrow and doubt, periods of darkness and beauty-blindness. No false cheer, no sucking it up, and no force-feeding ourselves gratitude.

We’re interested in a broader, wilder definition of beauty: art, music, nature, human connection, surprise, delight, awe, heartbreak, humor, tenderness, exaltation, and the glimmers that show up when life feels messy, complicated, or hard.

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