I don’t know how people who have never had a personal musical outlet survive into adulthood. Even though I didn’t start playing a musical instrument until I was 15, I identify with all of the kids in the movie who say that they can’t imagine their lives without their instrument. I love the pride in the eyes of the little girl when she looked at her violin. That is love.
This short documentary is a bit longer than what I usually share, but it is so worth stopping whatever you’re doing and setting aside the 40-minutes of undistracted viewing. It’s that important. I mean, there is something about the beauty of living a life fixing broken things, and that we’re all like those beat-up instruments with cracked parts that need to be re-glued, with little toys and bits of trash stuck in inconvenient places. We’re all swap-meet $20 violins that not everyone sees any value in, but changes the life of the one person who sees its value. I hope that you can remember or rekindle in your life the kind of love that the little girl expresses for her violin. Happy weekend, y’all.
Sources:
- The Last Repair Shop – A film by Ben Proudfoot & Kris Bowers, Breakwater Studios (2023-11-08), https://breakwaterstudios.com/the-last-repair-shop/
