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Kintsugi method of repair & enhancement

1/1/2018

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​I’ve only recently become aware of kintsugi, a Japanese method of repairing broken pottery. A special lacquer, typically mixed with a precious metal like gold, is used to mend the break while producing a piece that visibly displays the mend rather than disguising it. The result is frequently an object even more beautiful than the original.
 
The philosophy of the method is to illuminate the mend, giving value to the imperfection and highlighting the history of the object.
 
While one could reasonably argue that the nicks, breaks and scuffs that we as humans take on during our lives and careers are not cause for celebration, where would we be – what would we be -- without them?  We would not be as valuable as we are, we would not have the experience we have or be the embodiment of the learnings we have received. We would be a shell, a facsimile of what we currently bring to the world.
 
I don’t necessarily advocate wearing our (broken) hearts on our (virtual) sleeves, however I do believe it is valuable to make visible the benefits of our experience.
 
In our hearts, most of our mended divits don’t feel like they are laced with gold or silver; the emotion of the discontinuity may still linger.   But one must believe that the self-recognition of the imperfections, once reconciled with the exquisite lessons learned therefrom, make us more valuable humans to ourselves and to others.

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Judy Dang link
3/16/2018 11:39:09 am

Thanks for sharing this concept. I love the idea of seeing the hurdles I've overcome as gold, something precious that contributed to my entire life experience.

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Ginger link
3/16/2018 12:01:31 pm

Thanks for your comments, Judy. I wish so much there was an elegant way of displaying our precious hurdles. Badges on our lapels? Stoles in special colors, like we wore when we graduated from the university? We need something more that a new charm on the bracelet :)

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6/17/2018 05:01:35 pm

This is cool. It's nice that they make all these information available online. There's no way for us to ever learn how all these are made had it not this way. I am not travelling outside the country just for this. It is simply not practical. Not that I don't want to but I don't have the money for that. I only have a strong will to learn. I guess this really is a job well done. I am really looking into researching more about this. I am going to teach this to kids also. What a great way to start.

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    Ginger Weeden

    Growing up in a rural community in the South, my farming/ranching father was a well-educated, soft-spoken man whose subtle philosophies of life impacted me in ways I've discovered only as an adult. 
    Many of the life lessons about which I write are reflective of imaginary conversations I've had with him.

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