Nicole Leth who is an artist and writer lives in Kansas City, Missouri, lost her father when she was just 17 years old.
The 26-years old rented Billboard in honor of her father to spread love and positivity.
Her father had committed suicide and other people who have lost someone to suicide told Nicole the billboard shares the words they wish they could have said to their loved ones.
The message reads: “You are human. You are loveable. You are strong. You are enough.”
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Posted by Nicole Leth on Sunday, July 28, 2019
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Nicole told TODAY: ‘’It launched me on this trajectory of wanting to do things that matter to people and have positive output to what I created with my artwork and writing,‘’
‘’I realized over the years I could never save someone’s life for them, but I could create an encouraging and affirmative space to empower them to save their own life.‘’
‘’I started putting affirmations on stickers and leaving them in public spaces, giving them to teachers, sending them in the mail and letting them go into the world where people could discover them in ways they need them,‘’
‘’I wanted to take the affirmations and make them louder,‘’
‘’The reaction has been unbelievable and heartfelt and overwhelmingly positive,‘’
‘’I have been receiving lots of emails from people who said it mattered, or they saw it and had a terrible day and didn’t think they could survive, and without knowing the story of the billboard, they said it let them live one more day.‘’
She paid for the Billboard to run through mid-August and shared the artwork with people who plan to rent billboards in Vancouver, Canada, Orlando, Florida, Des Moines, Iowa, Springfield, Missouri, and in Texas.
Nicole said that her father had the same heart as her and it was the perfect way to honor her father and spread a message of hope.
She said: ‘’He truly had the same heart as me and he always felt things so intensely. We’d always go on these cross country road trips and have the deepest conversations about life and people and love,‘’
‘’He was the first person who taught me how to make beauty out of hard things.‘’