See Beauty in Imperfection
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Have you heard of the Japanese word:
Wabi-Sabi?
We don’t have a single English word to translate its meaning.
It takes a whole paragraph!
According to Leonard Koren, who wrote a book
titled Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, and Philosophers,“Wabi-Sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
It is a beauty of things modest and humble.
It is a beauty of things unconventional.”
The impermanence of footprints in the sand is an example.
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The modest and humble man here speaks of Wabi-Sabi to me.
Look deep into his eyes. There is beauty in his face.
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I was inspired to write a Haiku X5 on this subject
as I look with fresh vision at the Wabi-Sabi examples around me.
Wabi-Sabi is
The beauty of the withered
Acknowledge decay.
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Wabi is humble
Sabi is the solitude
Put them together
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Wabi-Sabi is
Beauty in humility
Embracing decay.
Face imperfection
All things are impermanent
Each of us declines
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Know Wabi-Sabi
Appreciate “ugliness” –
See beauty in it!
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