Showing posts with label kintsugi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kintsugi. Show all posts

Friday, August 1, 2025

Gilt not guilt



Failure is all the rage

these days.

I have been practicing, and I understand

the rage.


Someone said that melancholy

is tragedy handled well. 

breaking out of your comfort zone

Is the key to freedom from 

the cottage of contentment.

too small for you but everything 

you think you need, 

within arms reach.


How do you know

what you need- Now

Meditate, 

we are advised- Let it go

as if commitment was the culprit.

Break habits, make space and then

Kintsugi.


Same thing as working with what we have. 


Is that the work

that pays 

nothing but costs everything?


Expectations interfere,

and fear is expected.

For the winners-


overcome and overflowing; All

the times we cannot hold onto,

the memories we cannot release

and the future that refuses to arrive.


Setbacks and leg ups, 

there was always more to gain by loss.



Painting by Nikolai Yaroshenko, 'Portrait of a woman' c. 1893 in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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