by Kim Ort | Aug 13, 2015 | Books, Contemplation
Last week, I wrote about this book, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, by Leonard Koren, and how it confirmed for me that wabi-sabi includes subjects that are often overlooked. This week I’ll share examples of the material qualities of...
by Kim Ort | Aug 11, 2015 | Books, Consolations
This week at the Adventures in Seeing Google+ community, we’re depicting and writing about the word “besieged.” All of our weekly words come from David Whyte’s book, Consolations. Please feel free to join us. The verb “besiege” has...
by Kim Ort | Aug 6, 2015 | Acceptance, Books, Essence, Humility, Spirituality, Zen Buddhism
Wabi-sabi refers to an elusive and elegant beauty. Wabi suggests a beauty of elegant imperfection. Sabi means loneliness or rather aloneness. Together, they suggest the beauty of ‘the withered, weathered, tarnished, scarred, intimate, coarse, earthly,...
