There is a crack, a crack in everything: that's how the light gets in

"There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in" - Leonard Cohen

Kintsugi (金継ぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.

Rather than find faults in cracks, tears and other imperfections, the Japanese spirit of wabi-sabi encourages us to appreciate that nothing is truly perfect or permanent. From a new crack in a favorite plate to life’s much more monumental losses and traumas, wabi-sabi gives us a way to frame these challenges and allows us to find strength and beauty in the process of healing and repair.