Turn your cracks into gold.

It's not often I contemplate the beauty of mended souls while eating Bang-Bang Cauliflower.

But then I don't eat Bang-Bang Cauliflower that often. Yet yesterday, in Wagamama, I did - and noticed the little noodly homage to the traditional Japanese art form, Kintsugi, on the front of the menu.

Also known as Kintsukuroi, Kintsugi is the art of repairing broken pottery with gold leaf. But this ancient tradition in Japan is no standard repair job. It's an entire philosophy worth living by.

This precious practice of taking a broken item and carefully sticking it back together with gold, means it's reborn as something more beautiful - stronger than ever before. No invisible superglue or disguise needed.

A piece of broken pottery repaired in this way reminds us to find strength in our own imperfections. Reminds that by accepting our fragility, we can repair our body, mind and spirit. That our cracks and flaws and wounds and scars are often the very things that make us beautiful. Imperfection is, after all, the building block of evolution.

So here's to beautiful golden scars, mended bowls and mended souls.

To celebrating the imperfect perfection of us all.

To the Monday that doesn't need us perfect. And a life that can be flawsome.

Love, Jo x

P.S. While I celebrate the imperfect, Wagamama's Bang-Bang Cauliflower is actually pretty perfect.