The Japanese art of kintsugi involves filling the cracks in a broken pot with gold, highlighting the broken places with beauty rather than trying to hide them.
How have you created beauty from your broken places?
Category: Meditations
Fun House Mirror
The distorted mirrors of a fun house reflect our images back to us in a bizarre variety of ways—taller, shorter, fatter, thinner, even shattered into thousands of fragments. It turns out that the many ways others see us—and even more so the ways that we imagine others see us—provide an even more distorted set of images than a fun house.
What helps you stay focused on an image of yourself that feels true?
Where Light Enters
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
―Rumi
How has a wound allowed something to illuminate your heart?
International Women’s Day
Although great strides have been made in the fight for women’s equality since the struggle to win women the right to vote, there is still considerable work to be done. (And much work beyond that to achieve full gender equality across a spectrum that goes beyond the binary of male and female.)
Who inspires you by their work for gender justice?
No!
As good people, kind people, people of faith, we learn to be cooperative and kind and understanding. But when systems are broken, a faithful response—a response based in understanding—might better be flat-out resistance and refusal to go along.
When have you chosen the good by refusing to cooperate?