John Pastorelli July 3, 2026 Human imperfection (?) Our imperfections are qualities and characteristics of what make us human. They provide the oddities that excite and enrich the flavour of our perspectives, they introduce novelty and personality. Any yet imperfections are often shunted. A brilliant piece of furniture can be ruined with just one scratch. And so, there is a paradox in which imperfections can make the world all the more human-like whilst also frustrating our

Value is such a subjective notion determined by so many variables. What may be of value to some people might cause others to cringe. What rocks people’s world one day might be discarded the next. For example, I’m writing this article whilst listening to a band called the Groove Investigators, whose genre I’d say is somewhere around funky jazz. I first included it on my playlist a few years back, and kept listening to their music on and off for a few months before ‘moving on’.