about this site

there is beauty everywhere, you just have to look. a cup of coffee with a friend, a worn pair of sneakers, a 3 am phone call and the faces you encounter every day. behold is about recognizing that beauty in all things, especially ourselves.

this site was founded in april 1999 and given its own home june 2000. it was inspired by bittersweets, 99 secrets and lowbrow, websites that captured moments in short but wonderful snippets.

we are no longer taking submissions, but you can still view all the wonderful stories contributed over the past year. click {more} for more. all of the work is copyright by its respective owners. please respect them.

thanks to my family for teaching me what's pretty, peta for the use of the beautiful photograph, and you, of course, for daring to see beauty -- in this site, in others and in yourself.

xoxo,
christine