I photographed the gardenia for a week as it swam and shrunk and migrated to the far side of the bowl. And then I saw the crack that said I now had only 3 usable, intact iterations of this favorite white vessel. I must have an odd number of everything now. Stemware, silver, linen napkins become gossamer... It's that we keep what we love as it matures and eventually comes undone. We're all bruised and fractured and cracked. It's how we stay interesting.
- When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the
- damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe
- that when something's suffered damage and has a history it
- becomes more beautiful.
- — Barbara Bloom
This flower, not better. Just earlier. Younger. Lying over the crack.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Too serious?
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner.
If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's
on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak
with an accent.
— Roman Polanski
True.
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