Kintsugi is the Japanese art of fixing
broken pottery with lacquer resin dusted or mixed with
powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy it
speaks to breakage and repair becoming part of the history of an object, rather
than something to disguise - an embracing of the flawed or imperfect. Japanese aesthetics values
marks of wear by the use of an object.
Filling the Cracks
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| Image from Wikimedia |
By Judith Cullen
(c) 2014
Hands reach out
Seeking a surface kiss.
Sunlit fingertips
Touching, kneading hope.
They are surprising
What only others possess
Observable deficiencies
Breaking your pattern.
No one warns you
They are parcels of life
The price of victory,
Joy, passion, pride.
Now knowing it
Learning to honor them
Cracks of living
Filling them with gold.
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