Recollections of My Non-Existence

by Rebecca Solnit

the Japanese art of kintsugi, which literally means golden repair. It’s a method of mending broken ceramic vessels with a bond made of powdered gold mixed with lacquer. The result turns the breaks into veins and channels of gold, emphasizing rather than hiding that the vessel has been broken and making it precious in another way than it was before.

It’s a way to accept that things will never be what they were but that they can become something else with a different kind of beauty and value.

William Stafford: “I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.”