The Sound of Stone: How a Slate Coaster Changes Your Drinking Ritual
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Listen. Not to your thoughts. Not to the music playing in the next room. Listen to the sound your glass makes when you set it down. If it is the hollow tap of glass on wood, or the soft silence of glass on cork, you are missing something — a sound that…
The Slate That Speaks: Japanese Wabi-Sabi in a Stone Coaster
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There is a Japanese word that resists direct translation. Wabi-sabi — the beauty of imperfection, the elegance of the incomplete, the quiet dignity of things that bear the marks of time and hand. It is why a cracked teacup, repaired with gold-dusted…