60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: What Could an Expert in Porcelain Repair Teach About Living Whole Again?

<p>Hello to you listening in <a href="https://thirdeyetraveller.com/reasons-why-you-should-visit-alexandria-egypt/" target="_blank">Alexandria, Egypt</a>!</p><p>Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga.  </p><p>Time out of mind my used-to-be-husband left me for Wife Number 4. By and by - inspired by the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh - I learned to let go of my suffering. We suffer when we grasp and keep tight hold, instead of coming to a place to let it go. All is impermanent. That awareness doesn’t come easily; but it does come. Then we have to live our lives.</p><p>I remember attending a workshop for us poor divorced souls to learn how to piece together the remnants of our shattered lives. The speaker was a middle-aged divorced woman who repaired broken porcelain collectibles with one of two methods. The first was called a glue-up. Get the bits and glue them back together. It’s serviceable enough.</p><p>The other more time-consuming and expensive method involved painstakingly detailed and careful work: sanding the rough edges of all the bits, carefully piecing each bit together, affixing the bits with a special glue so the joinder line didn’t show, and painting the piece to restore it to whole.</p><p>Her advice to us was while we could get away with our lives being a glue-up, in her experience it was much better to do the painstaking work to live whole again.</p><p><strong>Story Prompt</strong>: When you’ve taken the time to put in the effort to restore something to wholeness in your life what was the result for you? Write that story!  </p><p><strong>Practical Tip</strong>: The magic of stories is also in the sharing. If you wish share your story with someone or something.   All that matters is you have a story.</p><p><strong>You’re invited</strong>: “<i>Come for the stories - stay for the magic!</i>” <strong>Speaking of magic, I hope you’ll subscribe, follow, share a 5-star rating and nice review on your