Embracing Imperfection

Dear Friends,

This past weekend I had the great privilege of spending a few hours at a gathering for a friend who had completed a long emotional journey and wanted to commemorate the end of said journey with a weekend away.

As part of this weekend of commemoration, my friend brought in a woman who does Kintsugi workshops…Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with gold. Instead of hiding the cracks, it highlights them as part of the object's history, embracing imperfection, and creating something more beautiful and resilient than before. 

Kintsugi is often seen as a metaphor for life, where those areas of hardship and hurt are used to build and create something new, something different.

As we broke and built back our pieces of pottery, our workshop leader kept reminding us to breathe into and embrace the imperfection…she reminded us that we aren’t going to automatically be good at something that is brand new to us, but part of this process, part of this art is letting go of the expectation of what we think we will create, and leaning into the process of creating.

My dear friend, sometimes it’s hard to let go of the expectations we build around ourselves and the need to be perfect…but I think if we can let go of expectations and lean into the process of creating, we can find ourselves building something unexpectedly beautiful.

Have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista