Comments on: Celebrating the Cracks and Crevices

By: Michelle Russell

Michelle Russell — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:52:01 +0000

Taru – Wow! Thanks so much for linking to my blog on your own!

And thanks for saying that this is just what you need. I started this blog because I’m still working through my own control-freaky issues about trying to be perfect all the time, and I wanted to share the journey with other like-minded people. So it’s very heartening every time someone tells me that what I write speaks to them.

Feel free to hang out here and join the conversation as much as you’d like–you’re very welcome here!

By: Taru Fisher

Taru Fisher — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:07:59 +0000

Wow – I just found you and your blog is just what I need. Wabi-Sabi it is! Perfectionism will kill all growth and innovation, and stop progress, as well as making me f…ing unhappy 90% of the time. At my wise age, I should be finished with it, so it’s on tho wabi-sabi for me! If I may, I’d like to link to your blog.

Thanks!

By: Michelle Russell

Michelle Russell — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:01:10 +0000

@Barbara – Yes, that’s exactly what I like. I’d much rather use the one-of-a-kind mug with the wonky handle that I made on the potter’s wheel in college (the one that was intended to be a bowl but had different ideas) than one of a perfectly matched set of store-bought mugs. Or maybe the store-bought mug that has special associations for me instead of the one that simply *looks* nice. “The patina of a well-used and well-loved tool” — yes.

@Eileen – You get the humor of this exactly!!! )

Michelle Russell’s last blog post..Celebrating the Cracks and Crevices

By: Eileen

Eileen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:36:42 +0000

Haha! yes! The perfectly humble, artistically lived-in workspace, or the one dish sitting out you might see in a design magazine….so perfectly imperfect, now buy all of these things to achieve it!

Eileen’s last blog post..The new drug

By: Barbara Martin

Barbara Martin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:02:38 +0000

Sounds to me like you are hoping for a lifestyle where the ‘lived and used with daily’ takes on the patina of a well-used and well-loved tool — that was also well designed using honest material from the start. A sort of poetically perfect state of imperfection. But, plastic does not age well — it tends to turn brittle, or photodegrade, or crack under stress, or get scratched in an unattractive way. sigh. But we love our shiny things!

Barbara Martin’s last blog post..Coach Yourself Face to Face

By: Michelle Russell

Michelle Russell — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:40:35 +0000

Christine–LOL! Reminds me of that old “Pot Shot” by Ashleigh Brilliant (ever see those brightly colored postcards with the line drawings and one-liners on them?).

“Don’t tell me to relax–it’s only my tension that’s holding me together.”

By: Christine Martell

Christine Martell — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:14:47 +0000

You want us to accept things as they are? To work at a reasonable instead of frenetic pace? Preposterous. No one would recognize me..... Christine Martell’s last blog post..Addicted to organizing devices?