Damage illuminates us.

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 all manner of losses, conversations with friends, colleagues and strangers, covering the worst moments of our lives and what came next. Stories emerge as stacking musical episodes of misadventure, death, dying, longing and joy, exposing what is disjunct inside us, what puts us back together and sets us on our feet.

My Golden Repairs, a song cycle of grief and longing is inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi, the practice of fixing broken things by rejoining the pieces with gold-dusted laquer.

We are broken, then mended by time or design. The pieces may slip, they may hold, but our inner light finds its way 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 re-integration, 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, writer performer

The Golden Ox: self portrait, Amanda Moody 2025