Australian rocker Nick Cave, Native American activist/poet John Trudell, and a 14th-century Japanese shogun have thoughts about how to put ourselves back together through art
This is perhaps the most profound and moving writing I’ve read in years. The way you weave the stories together in a slow reveal demonstrates masterful design of craft. Knowing that this story was generated within you at a point of massive heartbreak over the loss of your father adds a depth of soul that brought me to tears. Thank you for making me think and feel and realize so much on a rainy Saturday morning at a point of my life in which I have so much to be grateful.
I’d just like to echo what has already been said here. This is a beautiful and moving piece. That its themes and structure mirror each other so beautifully is also incredibly clever. I loved it!
Oh man. This one hits, Cole. I can imagine sutures of gold among all of us. A compassionate recognition of brokenness and healing and repair everywhere. Even the earth’s tectonic plates joined by veins of gold instead of lava.
This was a beautiful and amazingly put together post, to see everything intercut and put together and yet of course all the same human hurt-art story. Is it a kind of kintsugi on the cover of Psalms for the End of the World?
This is perhaps the most profound and moving writing I’ve read in years. The way you weave the stories together in a slow reveal demonstrates masterful design of craft. Knowing that this story was generated within you at a point of massive heartbreak over the loss of your father adds a depth of soul that brought me to tears. Thank you for making me think and feel and realize so much on a rainy Saturday morning at a point of my life in which I have so much to be grateful.
Gosh 😭
I’d just like to echo what has already been said here. This is a beautiful and moving piece. That its themes and structure mirror each other so beautifully is also incredibly clever. I loved it!
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Oh man. This one hits, Cole. I can imagine sutures of gold among all of us. A compassionate recognition of brokenness and healing and repair everywhere. Even the earth’s tectonic plates joined by veins of gold instead of lava.
Great work, Cole. Wrote a similar “broken” theme on the old WP site called “Hector.” Haven’t looked at it in forever.
Beautiful writing and storytelling! I love the serendipity between Nick Cave and John Trudell that you display here. Great work. :)
This was a beautiful and amazingly put together post, to see everything intercut and put together and yet of course all the same human hurt-art story. Is it a kind of kintsugi on the cover of Psalms for the End of the World?