Reflections 21st March

image: Kintsugi close up. Forge Creative

Connection has been a continuing theme for me this week, and it's genesis which is what we choose to see. We see the world, we're told, not as it is, but as we are and it is from there that we communicate.

I think that is important right now. We can either see what is happening as a problem, and something broken, or as something in transition to something new and better that contains what was within it.

The Japanese term is Kintsugi (Golden Joinery) or Kintsukuroi (golden repair). Taking something broken and creating something beautiful from it. It's the attitude of the artisan. To take constraints and work with them, rather than overcome them.

We could do that with far more than pottery. The last two hundred and fifty years have brought us much that is good, as well as the collateral damage of much that is not. We have a choice - on the one hand, we can try to overcome, and to erase the bits we don't like, from statues to statutes, and replace the…