Repair

Here is a very common little word. It has some interesting things to sell, and to get to know it better let us reflect on the narrowing of meaning in which it is confined today.

Since childhood it is a daily experience that repairing means fixing something broken. The surprise is hidden in the more general value that our word has and that perhaps has been forgotten: not an object in fact but anything.
What is more broken in the world than relations, between peoples, between factions, between people?

We find it in the school lexicon, also read repair exams, it is not a coincidence and it is not a coincidence. Repair, then, expresses further meanings full of vitality: protect, shelter, correct, provide; the etymological explanations that have been advanced to explain this richness are not entirely convincing, with all due respect to the grammar anxieties to systematize and explain definitively: this word does not want to know that it can be fully explained.

Perhaps because repairing relationships is not an action but an art, and many styles are allowed. But is there a rule of repairing?
There is a criterion of verification and it lies in going to see if in the way of repairing spaces are formed (or recreated) in which life flourishes again.

Fabio Arduini
NP June / July 2021