That was truly beautiful. Thank you.

Damn, that sound's so easy if you think about it.

I too have heard of this imperfect philosophy. I have always heard that Native American cultures leave a mistake in their weaving to 'let the evil spirits out'. Therefore, I have always joked that none of my work will ever hold an evil spirit as there are too many mistakes!!! The same has been said of the quilting world! I love how this philosophy lets you relax and just enjoy creating.
As far as children and language, when my daughter was very young (Ben's age), she used to ask if she could "broom" the kitchen or patio. She is 27 now and we still "broom" not sweep around here!!

Google the term "Wabi-Sabi". It is the Japanese concept of finding beauty in things imperfect. I learned it from an art teacher many years ago and it has stayed with me. Whenever I'm feeling less than perfect I try to remind myself that my beauty is in my imperfections.

That Blumps thing reminds me of a gallegher performance I saw where he said the great thing about kids is everything is new and they don't have the vocabulary for it. He said they would specifically not tell her words so that she had to make them up herself. For example, when her foot fell asleep, people say it tingles, but she said it sparkled.

REALLLLLLy like this...its like...saying my self imposed imperfections are somewhat okay....thank you

I love this. It reminds me of the Leonard Cohen quote, "There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Thanks for the reminder about imperfections. Nobody's perfect, and anyone that tries to convince you that they are is only lying to themselves....

I think having a 3 year old girl we aren't getting the "butt" jokes, but she did say today she loves "poopie". And she calls the computer a "pee-ay-ter". I will be sad when that changes.

Thank you for reminding me of so many different ways imperfection can be beautiful. Of course, in trying to be perfect, I want to jump directly to the graduate level seminar. Taking deep breath...

My 6 year old says "yorgut" (and other cute variations I can't think of right now) and only recently started wearing his shoes on the right feet. I try to gently squash all efforts made to get him to say words "right." Soon enough he'll hear the difference and start speaking like the rest of us, "sniff."

I had to look up Dan Phillips on youtube. Wow! I shared it on facebook. I want to go to Texas and spend a few days quietly in a corner watching and jumping in to help if I'd be allowed! In fact, that would be an amazing home school field trip! Hmmm....

(hit "post" before I meant to)

... which, of course, makes me love this post. :)

(also, I developed a huge crush on Dan Phillips at that talk. Isn't he divine?

K.

I love the beauty of imperfection. In fact, i have an entire chapter in my book dedicated to The Beauty of Imperfection.

what's crazy to me, which i just realized, is that i'm such a perfectionist and yet my most favorite art, the art that moves me to tears are the very imperfect, cracked pattern of tiles.

there's a similar philosophy in knitting and weaving. in some Native American cultures, they intentionally make at least one mistake in each thing they weave, as a way of recognizing the imperfection in humanity. and knitters historically have done the same.

thanks for this thought today!

Thank you for sharing this video and your thoughts. One of the imperfection of our little condo is a missing door we haven't replaced. Right now a homemade curtain of Ganesha hangs as the entrance to my study/art room.

I love the word plump for blimp. I'm incorporating it into my vocabulary, with Ben's permission?