Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold: not hiding the cracks, gilding them, so the break becomes the most beautiful part of the bowl's history. I first read about it in a library book and thought about it for roughly a week straight. We spend so much energy pretending nothing ever cracked us. Meanwhile there's a four-hundred-year-old tradition insisting the opposite: the repair is the point, the seams are the story, the broken thing done healing is worth more. Stronger at the seams. I know some people like that. So do you.

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