Wabi-sabi is the Japanese idea of embracing the imperfect, of celebrating the worn, the cracked, the patinaed, both as a decorative concept and a spiritual one — its an acceptance of the toll that life takes on us all. As I wrote about it earlier this year, If we can learn to love the things that already exist, for all their chips and cracks, their patinas, their crooked lines or tactile evidence of being made by someones hands instead of a machine, from being made from natural materials that vary rather than perfect plastic, we wouldnt need to make new stuff, reducing our consumption (and its concurrent energy use and inevitable waste), cutting our budgets, and saving some great stories for future generations. We might also be less stressed, and more attentive to the details, which are the keys to mindfulness.=NUNU Jill Coury Hackney Lisa Distefano Lisa Qualls-Artist Mavis Arnaud Frugé Kathleen Whitehurst Francine Primeaux-Kennedy Candy Janice Palumbo Albert J. Guilliot Karen Willingham Cheryl Larkin Castille Aimee Smallwood Gaye Hamilton Pam Breaux Scott D. Finch Angela Cheng Finch Patrice Melnick Patricia Cravins
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:50:21 +0000
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