Kintsugi (金継ぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered 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. I’m not a broken person in the traditional sense but I’m also very far from perfect, and the day I realized the she is the Kintsugi to the chipped pottery that is my life at times was maybe the best day of my life. Here’s to 13 amazing years of golden joinery.