Peace Blog

What a Word I Already Wrote About Still Won't Translate There is a chapter on ma in Peace. It is one of the shortest words in the book and caused me more trouble than any of the others, because every English equivalent I reached for quietly threw something away. 間. Ma. Space, gap, interval, pause, negative space. Each one is defensible. None of them is what I mean when I use the word. Outside Japan, ma usually appears in design writing, explained as a Japanese reverence for e

I wrote about kintsugi in my book Peace — then finally tried it myself in a Kyoto workshop. Here's what the craft actually asks of you, and the word for imperfection I wish I'd known sooner.