Metaphors are rolling around in my head today, colliding and bouncing off each other.

“If we come together, we can mend the crack in the sky.” A line from a piece we are learning for Music Sunday by Jake Runestad. The easiest part of the piece, sung in English with the melody that is on repeat in my head, “If we come together, we can mend the crack in the sky,” is a Somali proverb.

And these words and this melody stand in opposition to Leonard Cohen’s “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

I sing in my head, back and forth in conversation, as if they are both questions, as if they are both answers.

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