Let's put all our treasures together - the clock, plates, cups carved in gold into a sack and carry them to the sea. There let our possessions smash in the sinister shock of a breaker; let the things that are broken call out like a river and the sea render back to us whole in the might of its crosscurrents all that we held of no worth. The junk no hand has broken, but still goes on breaking.
- from Oda a las Cosas Rotas by Pablo Neruda
Poet, Pablo Neruda, makes peace with all things broken. He portrays brokenness as a state as natural as wholeness. When things break, it's no one's fault. Items fall apart and wear out. People go away, change, break down and die.
Stories breathe in a crack of the vase. New possibilities exist.
Travel through the landscape of your mind in search of broken things. Make a. list of animate and inanimate objects and ideas.
Possessions get fixed, others are replaced or abandoned. What does salvaging accomplish?
Which tools do individuals discover to fix the broken?
Consider a different approach to breakage. With a new perspective, break wide open.
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