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(The Mothman Watches a TV Movie and Resolves to Steal the Declaration of Independence)
Does it have to be true, that everything we touch, we break a little?
Robert Wood Lynn
What if, as Leonard Cohen suggests, there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in? I want to explode the idea of what it means to break. I believe our breaking is our light. Let me explain. Breaking is the natural flow of falling apart and back together. In breaking, we soften. We reframe. We reconstitute. We reclaim. We rekindle. We shine.
Through breaking we invite our whole selves to be seen and loved. Through breaking we join the chorus of the broken, singing and living deeply and joyfully through it all. Through breaking, pain transforms. Through breaking our authentic light shines. Through breaking, we tap into our strength and fire and steel and imagine and create and build. Though breaking, trash becomes treasure. Through breaking, it all becomes useful and beautiful.
About Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.