Did you know that you’re perfect ?

In case you needed to hear it …

Not perfect like that. Not in the ways you wish for when no one’s looking. Not in the ways that nibble at your edges and wear them down sometimes.

You’re perfect in the sense of whole.

Full.

Complete.

Enough.

You’re perfect like a stretch of indigo cloth: nobody is looking at those few ragged threads, and faded fibers have character.

But the long view, the full view, the ensemble: it’s miraculous, it’s delightful, it’s perfection.

And so are you.

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Images from a Malian indigo atelier, put on by

Sékou Tours.

Indigo is a lesser-known Malian miracle, the little sister of

Bogolan. See this beautiful  article on one of Mali’s

indigo stars.