Repair, Restore, Refresh

There are five paths to repairConsider these words extracted from five books that offer different perspectives that anyone can draw on since none of them have to be purchased and can be integrated into every day of almost every lifeamp160Poetryamp160Wateramp160WabiSabiamp160Kintsugi and Gardens1 PoetryPoems restoreamp160us to what is deepest in ourselvesPoetry finds the perfect words in the perfect orderCK Williams in his Pulitzer Prize winning collection quotRepairquotamp160writesquotSelfdoubt is almost our definitionamp8221 as we move forward with the amp8220hesitant musicamp8221 of our livesamp8220If I can create myself Iamp8217ll be able to amend myselfamp8221amp8220Reestablishing myself in myself like this always comes to passamp8221He celebrates quotInvisible mendingquot the mind39s procedures of forgiveness and repairThe greatest poetry is written at the borders of what can be said as in this stanza on persevering and resurrecting and restoring oneself through the ups and downs of life while never losing your internal melodyamp8220Be soft in your practice Think of the method as a fine silvery stream not a raging waterfall Follow the stream Have faith in its course It will go its own way meandering here trickling there It will find the groves the cracks the crevices Just follow it Never let it out of your sight It will take youamp8221 amp160ShengYang2 WaterMoving water is often symbolic of power and life It can reputedly heal the sick and the lame restore youth confer fertility dissolve sin and so onIt is an alchemy of thermal simulation that leaves one clean and pure and reconciles mind and bodyFlowing water whether it be rainfall a stream a river or the tides of a lake or ocean has a certain timelessness to its biological rhythmsFrom the Calm app to the music at a spa our internal compass draws us to water as a place of rest rejuvenationamp160and repairEven if itamp8217s just the shower amp82303 WabiSabiWabisabi is a beauty of things imperfect impermanentamp160and incomplete It is a beauty of things modest and humble It is a beauty of things that areamp160unconventional amp160It is a philosophy of repair and therefore real life for it does not have perfection or ideal as a goalWabi refers to a way of life a spiritual path the inward the subjective a philosophical construct It is about quotspacequotSabi refers to material objects artamp160and literature the outward the objective an aesthetic ideal it is about quottimequot4 KintsugiKintsugi is a Japanese repair technique that takes ceramic destruction and makes a broken object into a new entity It leaves clear bold visible lines with the appearance of solid gold A kintsugi repair speaks of individuality and uniqueness fortitude and resilience and the beauty to be found in survival Kintsugi leads us to a respectful acceptance of hardship and agingKintsugi has in it the Wabisabi philosophy and its belief of beauty knowledge and humanity arising from the scars and the repairs is sung by Leonard CohenRing the bells that can still ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack a crack in everythingThatamp8217s how the light gets inamp8230And from the philosopher Rumiamp160amp8220The wound is the place where the light enters youamp82215 GardensIn theamp160Charlevoixamp160region ofamp160Quebecamp160there lies a private garden which covers more than 20 acres and is called Les Quatre Vents The Four Winds It is considered amongst the finest private gardens in the world It is opened a few times a year to the publicThe garden was created by one person Francis Cabot as his life work that blends creativity and passion It is simply the most breathtaking places one can imagineFrancis Cabot believed that gardens are like art and have the power to change you And unlike other art which may affect you differently over time because you have changed over time a garden is itself always changing Francis designed his garden to lift the soul of people who walked through it To help them grow and repair and healHe wanted you to come out different after the experienceTake a peek at Les Quatre Vents above and at top amp8230One prescription for the pressures and challenges we face is to take a walk in a gardenRegardless it is key to remind ourselves of Francis Cabotamp8217s belief that every individual is creative and we have a garden within ourselves that we need to tend to so that we can heal selfrepair and always bloomPhotos courtesy of Rishad TobaccowalaClick the social buttons above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writersamp160

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