Tag: kintsugi

  • Imperfect Progress

    I made an offhand comment earlier tonight which I think might become the subject of a book. In a conversation about quitting smoking, which I have succeeded at 4 or 5 times this year already, someone was talking about how they had done well for a while and then backslid. I told them that I…

  • An interesting quote

    I got this from Tim Ferriss’s facebook page, but it’s probably on his other social media as well. “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” ― ​James Baldwin I never really…

  • Seek the beauty within imperfection

    Yesterday I mentioned that muses aren’t real. It occurs to me that it might be useful to explain that a little more thoroughly. Writer’s block is a commonly used term even though it’s less than a hundred years old. We have romanticized all forms of artistic creation to the extent that it is more harmful…

  • Getting back to work

    Well, the advantage of not having an actual audience is that no one minds if I take a break, even if it’s a long break. The short version is that life has been imperfect. The long version is, well, long, and not really important. It’s time to get back to work. It may take a…

  • 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,…

  • Purposelessness of life

    Just a thing I’ve been thinking about lately. People often seek the meaning or purpose of life, and, aside from creating more life and continuing to live, I’ve never been able to figure out a definite one. Is there a purpose of my life? Sometimes there definitely is. Sometimes it is a little hard to…

  • 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.…

  • 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,…