your daily rock : love your imperfection

January 18, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us–that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect.” -Emilio Estevez

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks.

And yet we try so hard to hide the cracks.

What if we displayed them, instead? Like the Japanese who fix broken pottery with seams of gold. “Kintsugi,” this process is called: “It makes no attempt to hide the crack, but incorporates it as a design element into something simultaneously broken and strengthened by the break.”

Into what beautiful cracks can you pour gold?

Love,

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

3 comments to " your daily rock : love your imperfection "


Lindsey Mead

January 18, 2013 AT 8:33AM

Love that quote. Love, love, love. xox

mj

January 18, 2013 AT 11:28AM

apparently, I am mostly gold :)

Guest

January 20, 2013 AT 11:48AM

I too am mostly gold at this point. I gladly show my cracks. Most recently I have found that my health issues have caused me to lack some important filters between thought and speech that too me years to build. I may need quite a bit of gold to fill the crack in my mouth.