“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
“[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
“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
Contributors: Makoto Fujimura & E. Lily Yu
“We live the given life, and not the planned.”
- Wendell Berry, “1994: III”, from This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems, 2013.
Contributors: Makoto Fujimura & Jacob Beaird
Contributors: Makoto Fujimura & Nicholas Ma
Contributors: Makoto Fujimura & Stephen Proctor
“If we were half as eager to publicly and passionately praise what is true and good in the world as we are to condemn what is false and evil, society would quietly transform.
And so would we.”
Paul J. Pastor, Via X
