My Golden Repairs: a song cycle of grief and longing is made of 20 or so songs and spoken patter concerning changing states of grief and grieving. The songwriting draws from personal experiences, conversations with friends, colleagues and strangers, embracing losses of all sorts: death, dying, divorce, covering the worst moments of our lives and what came next. Stories emerge as stacking musical episodes of misadventure, longing and joy, exposing what’s disjunct inside us, what puts us back together and sets us on our feet.

My Golden Repairs is inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi, the practice of fixing broken things by re-joining the pieces with gold-dusted lacquer. We are broken, then mended by time or design. The pieces may slip, they may hold, Our inner light shines through the breaks in an ever-reaching world-wide web of love, loss, remembering and repair.

What life does to us shows. What we make of what shows connects us in the sharing of breakage, wisdom and humor. Of experiences we never wanted but which live in us all the same. Loss loves us all.

May love sing our glory down.

- Amanda Moody, 2025

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