If I had to choose between a painting and a beautiful bowl,
I'll go for the beautiful bowl.
I mean, I'm trying to imagine what it's like
to eat off a painting.
Oh dear dear dear...
So it's very important for me
if I'm going to make anything
that it has a good reason to be here,
to be made.
Ohh, where's my tea?
If I've dropped something like a teapot,
oh my my my.
After making a teapot and its dropped
it's like my heart drops.
I've picked up the shards
and found that the shards are so beautiful in themselves.
To pick up something small and something very beautiful
out of something bigger thats been broken.
It's like I'm seeing it in a new way.
It's like I've never seen the inside of the pot before.
We're always focussing on perfection and whole things.
But nothing can be whole, the reality is.
Things can be beautiful
in their brokenness.
So for me sometimes it's not necessary that we get fixed.
It's not necessary to be
stuck together or glued together with gold or whatever.
A piece is good enough.
A piece of it.
A piece of life... it's good enough.
Struggles in life... they are part of our journey.
There are two sides to it, you could say
she failed at bringing up her family,
she had a broken marriage.
You can heap it up and heap it up,
and there can be shame and all those things.
And the other side of it, you've got this amazing journey.
You're living it out and you're a survivor.
You're carrying through it all
which is more valuable, which is more puposeful.
Failure is not a shameful thing.
It's a necessary.
If we were too scared to fail,
we wouldn't even attempt anything.
We wouldn't even be brave
or have the courage to live out this life.
So we work through our failures,
we survive,
but something new comes out of it.
That was a quote that I picked up a while ago...
The more you fail,
the more you succeed.
It is only when everything is lost
and instead of giving up, you go on,
that you experience the momentary prospect
of some slight progress.
Suddenly you have the feeling,
be it an illusion or not,
that something new has opened up.
From something that is broken and in pieces
is the great opportunity
for something completely different.
Keep moving from a place of failure or brokenness
to be able to find that,
that something new.
People celebrate their successes.
I don't know of anybody having a celebration of their failures.
But you have to have imagination to see that, huh.