Category: kintsugi

  • Purposelessness of life

    Just a thing I’ve been thinking about lately. People often seek the meaning or purpose of life, and, aside from creating more life and continuing to live, I’ve never been able to figure out a definite one. Is there a purpose of my life? Sometimes there definitely is. Sometimes it is a little hard to…

  • David Wong/Jason Pargin kicks ass

    So this wasn’t what i intended to write about today, or, um, yesterday. I think I missed yesterday. Either way though, I ran across this earlier today in an internet search about a book that I’m rereading, and, now, when I’m about to finish the book and go to sleep, finally actually hit the quote.…

  • Everything is already broken

    That was a line from a facebook post about kintsugi that I saw earlier today, and it is also the best explanation of wabisabi and kintsugi and life that I can imagine. How I found that post is itself an interesting story about broken things. It was shared by a friend, that I have never…

  • Humorous discoveries

    I feel like this adds to my argument that the definition of wabisabi should involve humor. One of the people I have been reading lately in my journey to understand what I’m doing in trying to create a business is Seth Godin. I won’t recommend a particular book, as I’ve only read 4 or 5,…

  • Finally making some new kintsugi

    While I don’t have pictures of very much preexisting work up yet, most of my spare time for the past several weeks has been learning many ways that I don’t know much about making a website function. And since I barely have a system in place to write every day, when I definitely sit at…

  • A broken streak just needs some gold added

    Well, so as soon as I started working on a system to make writing a daily post easier, I found a flaw in my system. The short version is that there were some minor computer problems and I was exhausted, so I spent a few minutes trying to fix things and then just went to…

  • If it ain’t great, why not make it better?

    Any one of us can go to a store, or go online, and find anything that we want. And that’s pretty great, don’t get me wrong. But, many times, the objects themselves aren’t necessarily that great. They are all incredibly convenient. As an example, I thought of something that I assumed was impossible to get…

  • If it ain’t broke. . .

    At some point, we have all caused problems for ourselves by being unsatisfied with something for reasons that weren’t clearly defined, and then deciding that whatever thing we were unsatisfied with needed to be fixed. Usually, that causes more problems because in our misguided attempt to fix the thing, we end up breaking it and…