Letting Go of Perfect: Writing the Golden Repair

Tea bowl, Satsuma ware, White Satsuma type, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, 17th century, Edo period, Stoneware with clear, crackled glaze, stained by ink; gold lacquer repairs. The Smithsonian.

Hi there,

Today we will write. Ten minutes, two scenes, an hour: whatever it takes to get us to the page.

But first: What would it look like to not only keep in the …