Switch
The switch
To fix
To stitch
To light
Delight
Inside and out
To light
The way
To say
We are kintsugi
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From life’s war school
(Rightly said Friedrich)
What does not kill us
Makes us stronger.
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The switch
To fix
Beyond our dreams
We are the healers
We are kintsugi
We see and feel
We are
The switch
Kintsugi (金継ぎ, “golden joinery”), also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い, “golden repair”), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise…. As a philosophy, kintsugi can be seen to have similarities to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, an embracing of the flawed or imperfect.[10][11] Japanese aesthetics values marks of wear by the use of an object. This can be seen as a rationale for keeping an object around even after it has broken and as a justification of kintsugi itself, highlighting the cracks and repairs as simply an event in the life of an object rather than allowing its service to end at the time of its damage or breakage. Kintsugi can relate to the Japanese philosophy of “no mind” (無心 mushin), which encompasses the concepts of non-attachment, acceptance of change, and fate as aspects of human life. (Retrieved 27th Oct 2018 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi Usage/permission/rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
“What does not kill us makes us stronger.” (attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900, based on his words: “Out of life’s school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” from The Twilight of the Idols, 1899.)