What if failure were a prerequisite for better appreciation and management of success? That's the central question I'd like us to explore. And why? Because there are still parents, educators, ...
SONOMA, Calif. (KGO) -- In her Sonoma home, artist Maki Aizawa holds a broken plate. "When something breaks, we tend to throw it away," she said. "But we don't have to throw it away and don't have to ...
I recently took a course in kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery and highlighting the cracks with gold. The mended piece ends up being more beautiful and more valuable than ...
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In 2023 I visited Japan where there’s an art form known as Kintsugi, which means “to join with gold.” When a ceramic bowl or treasured piece breaks, it isn’t thrown away. Instead, it’s carefully ...
In our dining halls, plates are merely vessels of utility. Students stack them high with Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center fries or Fresh at Carmichael Dining Center pancakes, slam them down on plastic ...
The Japanese concept of Kintsugi is, at a deep level, similar to our idea of not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good—but it goes a little further. Kintsugi is the art of repairing broken ...