Gold To Me

Bravado.
It is not becoming.
Sometimes, though, a little bravado is a lot needed when one is required to be selfless.
Or, at least, that is the thinking of this writer, tonight - on a night where I wanted to be less bravado - and more selfish.
Reflecting upon this - it's okay to wound quietly.  It's okay to project the swagger necessary for a bigger and better goal.
It's okay.
Because that's really the only option.
To be okay.
And right is right. And heart is heart. 

Kintsugi (金継ぎ^?, きんつぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い^?, きんつくろい, "golden repair"),^[1] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique.^[2][3][4] As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

And just like that Ben Harper enters the blog singing my soul swaying song - "Gold to Me"...

Tonight I restored the bravado wall - only to fill the broken and fractured pieces of my heart with gold.
You look like gold to me
You make me wanna sing
Like the rays down from the sun
And I'm not too blind to see
You look like gold
With all the joy you bring
You look like gold
When a new day has just begun
You look like gold

Go forth and be.  Just fill the spots that are cracked and make yourself stronger.

Blessed.

- Simone