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It cannot survive without a broken America, yet we live with it as we fail to confront it.

July 1, 2022 By Egberto Willies

A former director of Coffee Party USA laments about a broken America reassembled ensuring the outline of the brokenness is never lost. It is profound.

A broken America reassembled

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As I did my daily perusal of the Coffee Party USA‘s main page, I ran across a post by former Coffee Party USA director and current President and CEO of Bridge Alliance Debilyn Molineaux. She wrote the following.

Wednesday musings. Our nation feels fractured, if not shattered. Something has broken in us and between us. It will never be the same again.
Today, I was reminded of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. The art is in the living and tender repair, using gold accents to highlight what was broken and is now made whole.

The fractures become the means by which each piece of pottery becomes unique and valued. It reminds me of the restorative justice with people.
We hold people accountable for their actions. And then we lovingly seek to make the situation whole again. Not the same as it was, but whole with the new conditions of the current reality.

How might we practice kintsugi with ourselves, with each other, with our nation?

We will never be what we were, but we can become whole again. And find the beauty in the process of repair.

I loved the sentiment. But there was something I needed to add so I added the following comment.

The words are true and beautiful. But until we are ready to solve the root of the problem we will remain just scar tissue over a simmering infection. We have an economic system and a hierarchy that depends on this cancer, this dysfunction. It cannot survive without it and we cannot live the lives we want with it. But we fail to confront it.

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About Egberto Willies

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Willies is currently a contributing editor to DailyKos, OpEdNews, and several other Progressive sites. He was a frequent contributor to HuffPost Live. He won the 2nd CNN iReport Spirit Award and was the Pundit of the Week.

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  1. houndsofpeace says

    July 1, 2022 at 1:42 PM

    When Ronald Regan was elected President of the United States of America I believed America was split wide open as I had watched Regan destroy California while he was Governor here. The widening of the schism in America is the natrual progression of having a Regan Presidency.

    The healing of this fracture I watched with the protesters of Black Lives Matter. There was what America looks like on the streets all over America. A beautiful sight. A force that will continue to heal this country.

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