Kintsugi

Photo by Motoki Tonn on Unsplash

Today’s prompt at Bacon and Beach Days is an invitation to explore the ways we encourage ourselves when trying something new. For a whole host of reasons, I am a fan of making mistakes and incorporating the mistake into the projects I am working on. Kintsugi (金継ぎ, “golden joinery”) is the Japanese term for incorporating a repair in a visible way instead of trying to hide it. Kintsugi is often associated with repairing broken pottery shards, but it isn’t limited to that…