{"id":605,"date":"2021-04-14T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/?p=605"},"modified":"2021-04-14T14:50:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:50:39","slug":"wellness-wednesday-kintsugi-and-the-art-of-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/2021\/04\/14\/wellness-wednesday-kintsugi-and-the-art-of-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness Wednesday: Kintsugi and the Art of Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_607\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-607\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-607\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/files\/2021\/04\/broken-pottery-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/files\/2021\/04\/broken-pottery-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/files\/2021\/04\/broken-pottery.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tea Bowl fixed in the Kintsugi method, public domain (Wikimedia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As we begin the slow process of resuming the social rituals we had abandoned like taking a red eye for a medical conference, going to weddings, and all the small interactions we take for granted. Recovering doesn\u2019t mean you go back to the way you were before. Using kintsugi, the Japanese technique of repairing broken pottery with gold, as an analogy for coming out of hard times with awareness of the change, and stronger than before. It\u2019s that you create a new normal, one that\u2019s functional and beautiful \u2014 and different.<\/p>\n<p>Kintsugi is the Japanese art\u00a0of repairing broken\u00a0pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer\u00a0dusted or mixed with powdered gold.\u00a0As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,<br \/>\nGME Wellness Committee<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=CooperGME\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we begin the slow process of resuming the social rituals we had abandoned like taking a red eye for a medical conference, going to weddings, and all the small interactions we take for granted. Recovering doesn\u2019t mean you go back to the way you were before. Using kintsugi, the Japanese technique of repairing broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wellness-wednesday","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/lifeatthecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}