It’s easy to marvel at the work of Vivian Maier and be in complete awe of what we see. Many of us might be compelled to call her one of the greatest street photographers to ever live. Maier was a nanny when she was alive. And to that, I’d add that she was the mother and caregiver to so many of us who came after her and who needed it to help us become inspired by everything around us. John Maloof discovered her work a bit over a decade ago, and, completely unrelated, the world has been burning. But staring at the photographs Vivian shot reminds us to fall in love with what’s around us every day. It does this with the duality of reminding the most analytical of us that she was an incredibly lonely woman.