An unheard, touching, true Kintsugi Story

Описание: A real Kintsugi story. Live from the "Kintsugi Dinner Evening" at the House of Beautiful Business in 2018, hosted by Klaus Motoki Tonn and the Team from Lumen Partners and Finde Zukunft.

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It was. It was a thoughtful gift, and she said:

"This is to give you comfort
and you can borrow it
for as long as you want."

And I broke it.
I dropped it.
I dropped my bag.
It didn't break immediately.
I had a big crack in it.
And I came back and I cried and I said:

"I've broken your really special rock that you lend me."

And, she said:

"It's no less beautiful. Why do you feel so guilty?"

And I said:

"Because I always do this,
I always break perfect things."

And she said:

"But now it has a story and that's even more beautiful."

And I was like:
"Yeahhhh, but I still have wrecked it."

And later it broke completely open.

I still have it and I still have a little chip that came off it and it sits on my shelf and the inside is stunning. It has a little blue flex in it, that it's not as shiny, it's not as perfect, but I got to see the inside and I knew, I knew the lesson.

I broke something with a perfect exterior and it was even more interesting and beautiful on the inside. It was such a...
That felt and struck me entirely in the same way the healing of it.

The fact that he heals, that he spends so much time and patience to then create something

that is new again.

A different new.

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Produced by Motoki Tonn. Film and edits by Daniel Schaffer.
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