Kintsugi Pieces

Shop All

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

View our Faux Kintsugi

Shop now