When grief and anxiety beat us down, the struggle to cope can feel like it’s crushing us even more. To meet big challenges we need to develop fierce consciousness.

In a time of uncertainty and devastation--from pandemics to environmental catastrophe--a call to action for finding beauty, creating art, and healing in community. This book celebrates that most beautiful work.

Trebbe Johnson not only celebrates the “wounded places” we live among but invites us to discover meaning, vitality, and delight in them and, in the process, in ourselves. We do this by visiting these places and making “guerrilla beauty” for them.

Once a year people around the world go to places they love that have been damaged or are under threat. They share stories, get to know the place as it is now, and make beauty for it. These are stories from the first 10 years of this powerful event.

In this book, Trebbe Johnson explores the concept of the Beloved— the elusive, alluring force that beckons us forth to passionate engagement with the world—and shows how our sense of love is often linked to something far greater than ourselves.