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  • Thoughtless imperfections. . .

    I had another day that involved waking up at 5 am against my will. The sunrise was beautiful. What actually kept me awake was the moon being lined up next to a planet or star so that when I glanced out of my window, there appeared to be fairly creepy silver eyes squinting at me.…

  • No day is perfect, but every day has some beauty

    I didn’t plan to watch the sun rise today, and was not happy when I woke up as early as I did. But watching the sunrise was beautiful.

  • Goals, systems, and imperfections

    I like to read about productivity and achievement a lot, because that’s basically the American dream, kicking ass and taking names and relaxing on a throne made of gold. And it occurred to me that this is another place where kintsugi ideas come into play. Well, technically, wabisabi ideas, but I had an interesting picture…

  • There is a crack in everything

    that’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen I think about this line and song a lot whenever I work on kintsugi. Sometimes we have to create the cracks in ourselves, our life, our thoughts, our feelings, our beliefs, to let any sort of light in. And while many elements of life can seem stressful,…

  • Hilarious imperfections

    Well, today I managed to accomplish none of the things I had planned, and that is completely ok. One of the reasons that I love kintsugi and wabisabi ideas is the acceptance and embrace of imperfection. I, and a lot of people that I know, and a lot of people that I don’t know exactly,…

  • Beginnings. . .

    I started this website and business nearly a year ago, and have made hilariously little progress. Part of that is just life and the demands of my day job, but a bigger part of it was ignorance of what I wanted to do and how to do it. Luckily, I have made some progress with…

  • Sometimes the horse throws you hard

    I knew that I hadn’t written anything for a couple of weeks, but I didn’t realize it had been five. Life has been extremely busy, but really rewarding lately, so I’m not going to worry about it. But, this is a practice that I would like to pick back up and see where it can…

  • Humorous imperfection

    While I was able to use the recent malfunction as a good topic for discussion and assignment in my classes today, the rest of today was simply another example of wabisabi. The details might not be interesting to most people, they genuinely aren’t to me, so I’ll skip them. But dwelling on the ubiquity of…

  • Just add garlic and pull gold out of the air

    So, while I do enjoy making kintsugi, and have been interested, if not necessarily enjoyed, all of the challenges of developing a website (which I mostly did incorrectly until I did the intelligent thing and asked someone that was smarter than me about it) and trying to start a business around kintsugi and the concept…

  • Imperfect systems

    Well, today was productive but exhausting. Quite a bit of work got done on developing systems to get work done that I think is important, but, one type of work that I think is important is writing something reasonably coherent if not necessarily deeply insightful here every day. And, while I had ideas for a…