Writing prompt #109 : WABI-SABI

Hi Everyone,

Here’s an explanation of this concept from the book, Wabi-Sabi, The Japanese Art of Impermanence:

“Developed out of the aesthetic philosophy of cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony) in fifteenth-century Japan, wabi-sabi is an aesthetic that finds beauty in things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to less is more, and sabi, which means attentive melancholy, wabi-sabi refers to an awareness of the transient nature of earthly things and a corresponding pleasure in the things that bear the mark of this impermanence.”

YOUR PROMPT: Choose a moment in your work to describe, with “attentive melancholy,” something transient. It can be a person, a place, a thing, a fading memory—whatever serves your writing today.

Abrazos,

Cristina