Category: wabisabi

  • 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…

  • More imperfect insights

    Well, today has been a good reminder of the ubiquity of wabisabi in the real world. Today has been a pretty good day, but none of the goals that I hoped to achieve were completely achieved. Nevertheless, it was a beautiful day, quite sunny and warm, which made for a very pleasant contrast to last…

  • Insights from real life wabisabi

    So, I did have an attempt at a plan for all of my writing for this week, and one thing that this week has taught me so far is that my plan was pretty poorly made. The details aren’t important enough, but today was complicated enough that I neither made any kintsugi nor have any…

  • Daily life wabisabi

    Today was a fairly imperfect day. The details of the imperfections aren’t really that important. Nothing terrible happened, just a few pretty dumb things. Have I found strength or beauty in today yet? No, but I have found a considerable bit of humor, which has at least a little beauty in it. For extra humor,…

  • 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…