Can We Find Hope in the Japanese Art of Kintsugi?

Kintsugi repairs cracks in pottery with gold dust to create something even more beautiful out of the ruins. Can America fix its cracks?

Photo by Ruthann Hurwitz / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

Kintsugi is a repair technique that uses a special lacquer mixed with powdered gold to repair broken pottery. This ancient method can be traced back as far…