As we learned from Rilke midweek, you can find beauty and meaning anywhere.
Finding beauty and meaning everywhere is easier when you know and follow the principles of wabi sabi.
Leonard Koren defined wabi sabi as “the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete….a beauty of things modest and humble….a beauty of things unconventional.”
This morning I let myself enjoy a wabi sabi moment: I cashed an Office Depot Rewards check for $13.81. It was my first check from the Rewards Program! The check was wabi sabi – it had an expiration date.
I love office supply stores. Do You?
They are filled with modest and humble items that are satisfying to purchase and useful to have on hand.
Today I scored #2 Clean Seal Bubble Mailers, six of them in a package! And a twin pack of Sharpie Broad/Large black markers!
While desperately searching for a flashlight the last time the electricity was off, I made a mental note to stock up on flashlights. Flashlights are not, in my mind, conventional items to find at a traditional office supply store but after I snatched up the bubble mailers, a huge display of flashlights on “Sale” appeared.
A 3-Pack Aluminum LED Flashlight set complete with 9-AAA batteries glimmered. The small compact flashlights were different colors. Beautiful! And I know they won’t last forever.
It has been a day filled with wabi sabi moments!
Let wabi sabi enrich your life! Tell us your wabi sabi moments on the comment section of the blog. You can find it here: www.NickyMendenhall.blogspot.com