Don't you want to fix that wabi sabi?

Ah, the magic of rhyme: true blue  Holly Hobby, hari-kiri. No, that last one is a little too grim, though it is Japanese, which is where we're going. How about mu shu? Oops, that's Chinese. Anyway, wabi sabi dances off the tongue like A tisket a tasket and it may be the best idea to come out of Japan since sushi.

Wabi sabi is sometimes presented as the opposite of feng shui. The Chinese tradition of placement is about arranging humanly created spaces so they  reflect the balance and harmony of the natural world and foster the easy flow of life energy. There is nothing in that mission statement, though, that mandates a search for perfection or control. A wilderness, with its only seeming riot of color, texture, line is a marvel of feng shui and completely at odds with human ideas of perfection and control.

As is wabi sabi, which is all about Buddhist nurtured ideas of impermanence, asymmetry, simplicity, imperfection. It's Japanese tea ceremony Hagi Ware pottery, cherished for its asymmetries, nicks, cracks  It's nature's fleeting, flowing disorder/order as captured in this haiku:

It falls, the peony-

   and upon each other lie

         petals, two or three

Wabi sabi is  the opposite of Faberge eggs, Rolex watches, English gardens, plastic surgery . It's about giving up control, letting go and living loose, which is also why this blog posting appears in both Living Loose and Energy by Design. Respect for graceful imperfections, asymmetries, natural materials is celebrated at both sites and the cyberboundary between the duo is another illusion. Disrespecting that illusory boundary is but one more testament to wabi sabi.