Prompts for the Promptless - Ep. 1 - Wabi Sabi

“Prompts for the Promptless” was created to expand minds, share ideas, and — equally importantly — find something about which to blog.

Every episode will run for a week and feature a “concept”, complete with a super-simplified definition and suggested prompts.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Wabi-sabi is the beauty of the imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is the beauty of things unconventional and modest.  It’s not just a style of art, it’s a world view.

“Wabi-sabi is a way of seeing the world that is at the heart of Japanese culture. It finds beauty and harmony in what is simple, imperfect, modest, natural, and mysterious. It can be a little dark, but it is also warm and comfortable. It may be best understood as a feeling, rather than as an idea.” – Mark Reibstein and Ed Young

Learn more at Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

Suggested Prompts:

• Share a picture of something that represents a wabi-sabi style of beauty to you
• List the 5 most beautifully imperfect people or things you can think of
• Consider, develop, or discuss the role of perfection in beauty
• Write a poem about the imperfect, impermanent, or incomplete
• Share a story about something left uncompleted
• … or make up your own prompt related to the theme!

Current Cast:

• Heart & a Half: http://heartandahalf.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/wabi-sabi-scar/
• Everyday Gurus: http://everydaygurus.com/2013/02/20/wabi-sabi-beauty-in-impermanence/
• SortaGinger: http://sortaginger.com/flowers-hank-hill-and-beauty-in-nature/
• TheTemenosJournal: http://thetemenosjournal.com/2013/02/20/a-gnarl-of-beauty/
• GeorgeFloresWrite: http://georgefloreswrite.com/2013/02/20/hot-baldbalding-men-wabi-sabi-of-supposed-imperfection/
• MamaBearMusings: http://mauldinfamily1.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/wabi-sabi-beauty-in-impermanance/
• Day One: http://looneyatoms.com/2013/02/21/wabi-sabi/
• CheriSpeak: http://cherispeak.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/perfectly-imperfect-imperfectly-perfect/
• BreathingSpace: http://grandmalin.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/wabi-sabi-rainbow/
• Mind of a Mouse: http://jaschmehl.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/unfinished-business/
• Far Away in the Sunshine: http://farawayinthesunshine.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/much-better-thank-you-for-asking/
• ElectronicBagLady’s Bag of Bits : http://electronicbaglady.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/fresh-firecoal-chestnut-falls/
• Grayson Queen: http://graysonqueen.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/the-wabi-in-the-sabi
• A Number of Things: http://newpillowbook.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/waaabiiii-ssssaaaabiiii-stretching-an-idea-too-far/
• Rarasaur: http://rarasaur.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/time-hunting/
• Fibot: http://fibot.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/my-wabi-sabi-headband-and-new-hobby/
• The Daily Dilly Dally: http://notsoprompt.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/prompts-for-the-promptless-ep1-wabi-sabi/
• .. and you?

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