Category: wabisabi

  • 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…