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
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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