from trevor’s encyclopedia of beauty in the plain, genius in the simple, wonder in the ordinary, and courage in the human
the little monk
Sometimes, the little monk hears with his eyes. Sometimes, he sees with his ears. At all times, he looks and listens with his heart.
Some stories break the little monk’s heart and scatter it all over the ground. Some stories mend his heart and put all the pieces back together again.
The little monk loves the Japanese art form ‘kintsugi.’ In English, it is translated ‘golden joinery,’ for it is an ancient art form where a broken pot is mended with laquer and dusted with powdered gold. The beauty of the broken pot is in it’s brokenness.
This is the philosophy of the little monk.
- tsb, ‘sayings and doings of the little monk,’ summer 2021
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