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  • We are called into Culture Care, this act of mending the fractured soil of culture, so that beauty and mercy might grow again. And this mending, this gentle insistence on tending rather than consuming, is itself a form of transfiguration. Where there was only shadow, we can plant seeds of light in hope. To speak of Hiroshima and Nagasaki today is not to rehearse guilt or assign blame; it is to name the wound so that it might become a womb.”

    - Makoto Fujimura

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  • Art is not found in flashy fame or selfish ambition measured in human clocks. Instead, we must realize — and honor — that there are particular seasons. It is the gentle cultivation of spaces and community where beauty can flourish. It is the willingness to wait, to be attentive, to tend.”

    – Makoto Fujimura

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  • As artists, as makers, as cultivators of beauty, we are entrusted with the work of patient tending. The soil of our time feels eroded by anxiety and speed, but even so — perhaps especially so — our calling is to plant, to listen, to watch for signs of the invisible becoming visible.”

    - Makoto Fujimura

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  • In this, we see the long arc of our culture care vision: that art, when faithful to the soul and attentive to the world, becomes not a mirror but a common table. A place where we gather, break silence, and become aware again of what is sacred.”

    - Makoto Fujimura

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  • [The work of the poet] is to enable and advance consciousness…A true poem makes reality more available to us, and makes us more fit to inhabit it.”

    - Christian Wiman

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  • In the West, we are quick to throw away, to replace, to move on. But the Kintsugi master does not rush to repair. The first gesture is not fixing, but seeing — an act of reverence.”

    Makoto Fujimura

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