Dashing this off before dashing off.
I dropped the deer bone horse head I'd posted about a while ago. After finally spending an hour or so tying horse hair around it. It really has become a treasured fetish for me. So my heart sank when it broke in two and I set out to find the unfinable crazy glue.
All of which got me thinking about what we repair and what we throw in the trash. In the context of the Year of Letting Go, it's a loaded question for me.
Still pondering. But in the meantime, here is a little something to inspire you in the art of repair.
Mottainai is a traditional Japanese custom of never wasting anything that can be repaired instead.
Kintsugi originated 400 years ago as a method for mending broken pottery with a lacquer resin glue,
repeatedly polishing many layers of lacquer for a seamless join. Artisans decorated their repairs by
adding gold dust to the lacquer, and kintsugi gradually developed into an art formin which the repair
actually added beauty and value. Old ceramics mended in this way can be extremely valuable, and
the art itself is becoming popular again.
May your day be filled with the Magic Medicine of peaceful mornings spent writing in pencil before running out the door.
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