The Whole is Greater than the Sum of It’s Parts: Part II – Kintsugi, Our Broken Parts, Inside-Out and Outside-In Kintsugi (“golden joinery”) is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Wikipedia Kintsugi: The art of repairing metal with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken T he epiphany: It was close to 25 years ago when I had an epiphany that has since helped to guide me in my life. This epiphany came in the form of advice from a man whose identity and name I never knew, until maybe recently. It was a dark night the first time I met him. I started out alone. I was feeling particularly fuzzy this night, as I walked around the apartment I was renting. It seemed as if I was exploring my apartment for the first t