Category: wabisabi

  • The importance of self compassion in an imperfect world

    I’ve been reading and listening to a lot of Seth Godin lately, and today’s post is just stealing his ideas in the hopes that someone else sees them and can use them because I know I can use them. Seeking perfection in any sort of work that you do is frequently considered neurotic, but then…

  • 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…

  • Evaluation of imperfection

    Today has been quite a good day, aside from the weather, and quite a productive day as well. However, that productivity in other areas has quite hindered my ability to write anything very coherent, let alone insightful. But, my realization of that, in my opinion, lends both beauty and strength to my life. I can…

  • Ah, Garfield

    It is pretty difficult to argue that Mondays are not imperfect days. But they can also be beautiful days. Today has not been a physically beautiful day at all. Yesterday, I was wearing shorts and sitting outside to read. Tonight should be the first frost. And, since it was Monday, I had to put on…

  • 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,…

  • The necessity of lifelong study. . .

    So I’ve been studying the Japanese language in a fairly serious manner for 4 or 5 years now, and I’m not terrible at it, but I’m not great at it either. I probably wouldn’t embarrass you very badly if we were walking around in Japan together. I also probably wouldn’t leave people thinking that I…

  • Is your vision good enough to see the beauty?

    Today was a fairly typically imperfect day, uncountable small problems and annoyances as I walked throughout my life, but almost all of the small problems disappeared almost instantly. I don’t know what exactly was different, and if I did, I wouldn’t bottle it and try to sell it. I would seriously give it away. Today…

  • 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…

  • 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…