Joyful Joinery

Revisiting a reflection on “Durable Joinery” from one year ago because… circularity. A regathering of ideas once again — and probably forever — relevant. Recollecting. Relearning.

Mission Intermission

Joints. Joinery.
Durable joinery.
Rejoinery.
Durable. Dynamic.
Durable dynamics.
Team dynamics…
interrupted.
Progress interrupted. 
Again.
Stutter steps.
Impromptu regrouping.
Remapping. Rebooting.
"There are times
when the border —
between broken
and unbroken —
blurs
and faultines 
become fractures."
Would woodworking
succor?
Would wood joinery
reconjoin?
Might metaphor
mend?
Joining, conjoining, and reconjoining.
Bringing together.
Bringing back together.
Durable bonds…
"the durable bonds
and the abiding beauty
that hold it
all together.”
Team building.
Team rebuilding. 
First unbraiding. 
Then re-braiding. 
Again. And again. 
If metaphor serves,
mending that 
which was broken,
it does not conceal. 
It does not dissemble. 
Metaphor mends 
with respect
and humility,
acknowledging,
even celebrating,
the healed fracture.
Kintsugi.
Wabi-sabi.

To lessons learned. Lessons relearned. And durable joinery…