Wabi-sabi
WAH-bee SAH-bee
n.Finding beauty in what is imperfect, weathered and incomplete.
JapaneseCultural concept
The Gold Seam
The bowl broke in the second year of the divorce, which is a phrase Nora uses deliberately, because it went on that long.
It was not a special bowl. It had cost eleven pounds in 2009. It had a slightly wrong glaze on one side where something had gone amiss in the kiln, and she had bought it precisely for that reason from a stall in a market in Whitstable, and had used it every single day for fourteen years for her breakfast.
Her son knocked it off the counter with his elbow and went white.