Mistakes and imperfections

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loud but I can't be there. So hopefully other people read it and say it out loud to themselves and if there's a mistake like you it's not that big of a deal. I mean I want to make it right but also to what extent? There's this this is a weird story. I actually wrote about this once um I was in this Navajo rug um gallery. And I was looking at these Navajo rugs and they're really geometric and and beautiful but they all were kind of like off in a way. Like the triangle wasn't quite like the the angles weren't right and there were some mistakes what I thought were mistakes and I asked the guy I said why like why are there mistakes in these And he said like you know this is this is his interpretation. Uh the Navajo didn't see that as a mistake. He

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basically said like just like if you're a walking on a path and you stumbled or you tripped or you took a slightly different direction. You wouldn't back up and redo that section. You just keep going. It's just like yeah there was a thing that happened but you just keep going. And he goes that's what they do with their stitches. If they kind of were off a bit it didn't matter. They just keep going just as they would if they were walking or doing something. And I wonder if that in some ways can gave me some latitude did not take like not to take precision quite as And as long as the message gets through that's enough. Yeah. I it's so funny that you say that. I Oh good for you. And uh

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and I have two sets of basically bowls at my apartment. I have the cheap bowls that I bought on Amazon that are Amazon Basics and they're black. They're perfectly round. There's they're spotless. And then I have this one bowl that's blue um and it's got sort of some Oaxacan patterns and I bought it down there and it's got all these little nicks at this point and it's like very imperfect. The bowl isn't even perfectly round. The texture of it is sort of feels a little messy and stuff but I always pick up that bowl first. I never eat from the bland Amazon bowls before the Oaxacan bowl because it has so much more character. It has so much more life. It is so much more human. Yeah. Same thing. It's yeah it's the wabi-sabi thing in Japan. It's there's something about that. Now I should correct the spelling error. Like

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it does it doesn't make the piece Your in your point the nicks and the chips make the bowl feel different to you in a way that feels better. I don't think a spelling error makes the piece feel better but I also don't care that 340 people saw it wrong and then the rest 10,000 more saw it right when I fixed it online. It doesn't really matter that much. Yeah this is a a strange parallel that but it's somehow top of mind. But there's that John Legend song where he says all your perfect imperfections. It's like he's pouring out his love and his praise. And I think that we're talking about editing earlier. I think this is the problem where a lot of editors destroy writing is they try to make it perfect and they don't honor the perfect imperfections.

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no shade on my Ink editors but I had a few run-ins like that where there was like a sentence I wrote which I was really felt really good about and they kind of rewrote something and it was very it just felt like they were sterilizing it. Yes it's a great word. Yeah. And I'm like no no it's okay if there's some bacteria on this or whatever right? In my head I'm like that's yeah that might be better technically. Like there's words sometimes they would use. I I can't remember any examples but there was like the more it was the correct word but I don't want that word. I would like the way the other word sounded and felt and it was a little awkward and I kind of liked that. And so that's one of the tricks with editors is to help help them or help you know I guess help them understand what you're going for in your writing. It's for me it's not precision. It's not