Written by Martha Beck, O Magazine contributor
My client Francine’s husband had started behaving oddly. “I’ll do something ordinary, like offer to check his e-mail for …
La Bella Vida
Written by Martha Beck, O Magazine contributor
My client Francine’s husband had started behaving oddly. “I’ll do something ordinary, like offer to check his e-mail for …
La Bella Vida
Wabi sabi is an ancient aesthetic philosophy rooted in Zen Buddhism, particularly the tea ceremony, a ritual of purity and simplicity in which masters prized bowls that were handmade and irregularly shaped, with uneven glaze, cracks, and a perverse beauty in their deliberate imperfection.
The Japanese philosophy celebrates beauty in what’s natural, flaws and all. The antique bowls above are prized because of (not in spite of) their drips and cracks.
What if we learned to prize the drips and cracks in our messy lives?