Janine Ibbini, Musings, Prompt, Restoration Before I begin a new work I like to look at the dictionary definition of the prompt. Restoration – “the act or the process of returning something to its original condition, or to a state similar to its original condition” “The action of returning something to a former owner, place, or condition” Restoration: At first

Our world is broken and in dire need of repair.  We don’t always learn from past mistakes, and people continue to be hurt and killed.  Many seem to have lost touch with lessons taught in childhood about respect and consideration for others.  Or maybe they were never taught.  At any

Kintsugi is a traditional technique that has been around since the Muromachi period in Japan. It is a technique to repair cracked or chipped pottery using lacquer and metal powder. Nowadays, “Kintsugi” is attracting attention not only in Japan but overseas. It’s not only repair broken vessels by gluing them

Summer 2023 has taken me on so many adventures here in the local and distant areas that I so love as I traverse not only the quickly deteriorating woodlands and abandoned farmlands along Lake Ontario which are suffering from neglect. Many are surrounding areas nearby where I live, and due

I heard recently about a possible book banning in the Peel School District west of Toronto. During the periodic “weeding” of books – physically deteriorated – perhaps to be replaced by newer editions, it appeared that some troublesome banning might be taking place during that process, for example of the

Initially when I think of the prompt “restoration” I think of Governor Greys mansion which I visited last year and that it has been fully restored to what it was like back in that day in the 1800’s when it was first built. Its easy to think of the restoration

I have chosen “Restoration ” as our latest prompt for our CHANGE series When we think of restoration we often think about restoring old Church’s or Ancient ruins. However we can also think of restoring our own homes, old cars, historic buildings and even ourselves! Think about how we could