November 22, 2009
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Living wabi-sabi

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September/October 2001
By Marcia Tyson Kolb, Dragonfly Cottage Community for Lesbians (www.dragonflycottage.com) 
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I am a poet who writes prose, or the reverse. I write what I call prose pieces that are not poems and not prose, more music to me than anything else. For years my work has been rejected by agents and editors who said they loved my writing but didn’t know what in the world to do with it. Wabi-sabi.

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When I came out as a lesbian, the world thought I was odd—even though I felt normal for the very first time in my life. Wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi.My garden is wabi-sabi. Full-blown, blowsy, probably the horror of the neat tidy gardeners who are my neighbors, and just exquisite to me. I like big overblown bouquets, and I don’t pick up the petals as they fall.If it is straight I want to make it crooked. If it is smooth I want to scratch it up a bit. If I had all the money in the world, I would still furnish my tiny cottage from flea markets, thrift shops, vintage stores, and the like, and usually with things that were marked down because they were too peculiar even for the flea market crowd.I am an imperfect person living in an imperfect world and reveling in the wabi-sabiness of it all.

Marcia Tyson Kolb lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, and is at work on a book called Living Wabi Sabi. This article was excerpted from her Web site, www.dragonflycottage.com, Dragonfly Cottage Community For Lesbians, a cyberspace community devoted to lesbian women around the world.

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