60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: What Could an Expert in Porcelain Repair Teach About Living Whole Again?

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Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.  

Time out of mind my used-to-be-husband left me for Wife Number 4. By and by I learned to let go of my suffering. My teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh said that we suffer when we grasp something and hold tight to it, instead of letting it go when it was time. The awareness that all is impermanent doesn't come easily; but it does come and then you can step into the fullness of your life. 

I remember attending a workshop for us poor divorced souls who were curious about how to piece together the remnants of our shattered lives. The speaker was a middle-aged divorced woman who repaired broken porcelain collectibles with one of two methods. The first was called a glue-up. Get the bits and glue them back together. It’s serviceable enough.

The other more time-consuming and expensive method involved painstakingly detailed and careful work: sanding the rough edges of all the bits, carefully piecing each bit together, affixing the bits with a special glue so the joinder line didn’t show, and painting the piece to restore it to whole.

Her advice to us was while we could get away with our lives being a glue-up, in her experience it was much better to do the painstaking work to live whole again.

Story Prompt: When you took the time and put in the effort to restore something to wholeness in your life what was the result for you? Write that story!  

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