New Dawn
A Memoir of Alcohol Recovery
This is my story, how I drank, and how I learnt not to and what I learnt along the way.
About the Cover:
The bowl is a fine example of Kintsugi and I chose the image because it is so beautiful and such a thrilling example of how something broken can be made more beautiful by mending with tender care.
“The line that ran through my life wasn’t an elegant, silken thread. Mine had become an inextricably tangled, balled up mess, yet the line remained unbroken; it still ran end to end.” Amie Gabriel
Kintsugi (golden joinery) is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
“Not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, but the repair is literally illuminated… a kind of physical expression of the spirit of mushin…. Christy Bartlett: Flickwerk: The Aesthetics of Mended Japanese Ceramics
“Mushin” — encompasses the concepts of non-attachment, acceptance of change and fate as aspects of human life. Acceptance of change was fundamental in my recovery:
I, Sabrina, like the bowl, have a more beautiful life…
