A friend gave me this book by Robin Griggs Lawrence entitled "Simply Imperfect: Revisiting the Wabi-Sabi House." The book speaks to the Japanese concept of beauty as elegant instances of imperfection. Nature is "perfectly imperfect" -- and thus to emulate that condition of beauty is what brings us in harmony with the way the earth presents itself to us. It's ironically what lies at the essence of the pursuit of perfection in Modernism, and yet is so easy to forget. -JM

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