Japan & Pottery Repair

While visiting Japan —i know, humble brag—we visited a kind of Japanese craft store & one small section sold what the Japanese call Kintsugi Art.

Kintsugi is the art of putting broken pieces of plate or pot together (via some kind of soldering technique) with gold, and the result is beautiful (if not functional), each piece different and stronger than the original, perhaps more flexible

At the risk of sounding too, as they call it in writing lingo, flowery, I felt that maybe I and many others, are like Kintsugi pottery, broken in pieces and in infinitely different ways, made stronger by our physical and psychological scars, the gold in between the breaks. The gold represents both reward and trophy for a hurt, a catastrophe, a loss, or simply an unexpected change. Also, how it is up to each person to put a broken plate or bowl together in a way they struggle through in their own way.

So, I am a porcelain plate repaired with scars of gold.

Or, maybe I am a Haiku.

Or, maybe I need to chill and take a walk.