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Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir

by Amy Kurzweil

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Oct 01, 2021 08:31AM

“But when does something's destiny finally come to fruition? Is the plant complete when it flowers? When it goes to seed? When the seeds sprout? When everything turns into compost?”
― Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

tags: wabi-sabi

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“What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?

-Alice in Wonderland”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: books, reading

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“The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.”
― Peggy Orenstein, Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother

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“...in repairing the object you really ended up loving it more, because you now knew its eagerness to be reassembled, and in running a fingertip over its surface you alone could feel its many cracks - a bond stronger than mere possession.”
― Nicholson Baker, Room Temperature

tags: kintsugi, wabi-sabi

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