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Jeremy Mathew's avatar

This is beautiful, Michael. Thanks for sharing!

My own writing tends to circle around the metaphor of fragmentation. It's everywhere in culture right now. It makes sense. Lately though, I'm wondering how I could challenge myself to write more about wholeness. You touched on both here so well. I think I'm starting to see it more as a cyclical breaking and coalescing back into a whole. There's beauty in that.

I love pottery throwdown! Everyone I've introduced to this show has this same initial impression of Keith. We are so suspicious of tenderness. We think anytime someone allows this side of themselves to be seen, that it must be a performance of some kind.

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

“ My brain and heart cannot hold onto anything. Some days I am completely wrecked, a heap of shards on the floor that I must carefully pick through. Other times I am merely cracked.”

Saved this to read when I had the minutes to savor it, and am glad I did. I read it in the midst of a lot of tears and feeling at the end of an ability to break and repair yet again. And yet somehow, your words have helped me mix the glue—and even add a bit of gold. Thank you.

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