Beauty in imperfection

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I spent one wonderful morning walking through the Portland Japanese Gardens with my daughter.

We moved slowly. You don’t rush this place.

Along the stone paths, moss grows softly between steps. A single tree arches over a pond. A lantern is rusted.

And you give yourself over. You release, surrender to the idea that everything is always in transition.

This is the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi Sabi.

It means beauty in imperfection.

A philosophy that embraces the crack, not the polish. The worn, not the pristine.

You can feel it in wood that’s aged unevenly.

In a teacup with a thumbprint.

Handmade.

Wabi Sabi teaches that the most meaningful things are imperfect and incomplete.

Like us.

We don’t connect with people because they’re flawless. We connect when they let us be real, when they accept our imperfections.

• When someone says “I don’t know” without shame.

• When a leader admits a mistake, and you trust them more.

• When a friend fumbles their words but somehow says exactly what you needed to hear.

Let’s not edit out our humanity.

Let’s allow our words to not be perfect.

Let’s leave space for silence, for stumbling, for growth.

It’s OK, that we’re all a little cracked.

That’s what makes us human.

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