Diving Deeper

Repair Questions to Ponder 

• Think back to a time when someone repaired you by reconnecting you to pleasure and/or play. If you were to thank them, what would you say?
• How might your efforts to repair a social ill or injustice be trying to repair you?
• What joyful, courageous or healing memories repair you over and over again? Are any of them trying to speak to you today?
• Are some things better left broken? Does everything need to be repaired?
• Is there anything in your life that is longing to be fixed rather than thrown away?   

 

Repair Quotes

• “Let us not rush to the language of healing, before understanding the fullness of the injury and the depth of the wound.” – Dr. Yolanda Pierce
• “Nobody escapes being wounded. We all are wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not “How can we hide our wounds?” so we don’t have to be embarrassed, but “How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?” – Henri J. M. Nouwen
• “If you see what needs to be repaired and how to repair it, then you have found a piece of the world that God has left for you to complete. But if you only see what is wrong and what is ugly in the world, then it is you yourself that needs repair.” – Lubavitcher Rebbe
• “My heart is moved by all I cannot save: So much has been destroyed. I have to cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. – Adrienne Rich

 

Books about Repair

• • My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts by  Resmaa Menakem

• On Repentance and Repair by Danya Ruttenberg

• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
• We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century by Erwin Chemerinsky

 

Movies and Television about Repair

• When They See Us (Netflix)
• Origins (Hulu)   
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Amazon)
• Descending the Mountain (Vimeo)

 

Repair on the Internet

• A Slower Urgency https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/a-slower-urgency  “In ‘hurrying up’ all the time, we often lose sight of the abundance of resources that might help us meet today’s most challenging crises…” 
• Grief is Healing in Motion https://toko-pa.com/2019/07/24/grief-is-healing-in-motion/ 

“Grief plays an essential role in our coming undone from previous attachments. It is the necessary current we need to carry us into our next becoming…”

• Nick Cave on Loss, Yearning & Transcendence https://onbeing.org/programs/nick-cave-loss-yearning-transcendence/ 
• Be Kind (On small acts of repair that mean so much!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eKoOoOTvgk&t=16s 

• These Three Natural Things Can Repair You… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXPLbcsDOJQ 

 

Repair Music

• Click here for the Spotify playlist on The Repair of a New Day
• Click here for the YouTube playlist on The Repair of a New Day

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