Painting Gold Into the Broken Places
Oct 15
Written By Hilary Adams
Tracing the wounding
With luminous gold
I reveal my cracked wholeness
Highlighting the imperfect
Catching light.
— Hilary Adams
There is an ancient Japanese art form called kintsugi, “where broken pottery is mended with gold resin or lacquer so that the cracks are illuminated rather than concealed.” (Compassionate Conversations, How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, please see end of blog for complete credit).
This can be applied to things such as a broken mug, or favorite piece of jewelry that has been fractured, or, in metaphor, to life.
We spend a great deal of effort and energy either pretending we don’t have broken, wounded places, or we attempt to put everything in our heart, mind and spirit back together as if there hasn’t been a fracture or break.
