Broken Pottery (Kintsugi)
“The Japanese have an artistic and spiritual practice called kintsugi. Kintsugi means “to mend with gold” (kin means “gold,” and tsugi means “to mend”). A kintsugi master would behold the fragments of a broken bowl for a long time before mending it, rejoining broken pieces of pottery using lacquer and gold. They have a philosophy …
