How you know you married the right person
There are little moments in life when you know you married the right person. I had one of those moments yesterday.
My wife went to the corner shop to pick up a few bits and came back with a gift for me, a squashed tin can. That’s odd, you might think, but not remarkable. Until I tell you that 4 days earlier I’d walked past the same tin can, sitting there squashed in the rain. I’d paused to pick it up, but it was wet and muddy and I had nothing to put it in.
Why this tin can? Is it the colour, the form, or the fact that it’s looking right at us?
The strap-line for my website is ‘wabi-sabi dharma for real life’. And wabi-sabi comes into everything I do, either explicitly or implicitly. So what is wabi-sabi? In short, it’s those moments of finding beauty and truth together in the midst of our everyday life. Here with the tin can, perhaps it’s the beauty and truth of impermanence.
Of course, it’s rather mysterious where that beauty lies. In the can? In the eye of the beholder? If it’s in the can, why is it that no one else picked it up? If it’s in the eye of the beholder, why this can and not the multitude of other cans we walk past each day?
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