I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation. . . when they realise instinctively that this is their game. . . I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground.
Teresita Fernandez
Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new. ” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.
