The need to get away is never really about running. It isn’t about kilometres or destinations marked on a map. It is about creating space within myself. A quiet stepping back. A loosening of expectations. A longing to breathe differently — slower, deeper — until life feels simple again and my shoulders remember how to…
Tag: restoration
Escape
The tougher life becomes, the more I find myself daydreaming of escape. The dictionary tells me that escape means “to get free from something”, and there are days when that definition feels almost painfully simple. If only getting free were as easy in real life as it is on a computer keyboard. We press the…
Kintsugi
Kintsugi is a 15th-century Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. The word comes from kin, meaning gold, and tsugi, meaning joinery — to join with gold. The more I think about it, the more deeply it speaks to me, because it feels like so much more than an art form. It feels like…
Apples of Gold 