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The Way of Imperfection.

Across Music, Faith and the Grace of Becoming

The Way of Imperfection is a spiritual memoir written as an intimate dialogue between my older and younger self. Moving across time and memory, the book reflects on music, faith, vocation, beauty, suffering, imperfection, and grace, while exploring the interior life beneath the visible life of the creative artist.

At its heart lies a simple question: What would I say to my younger self with what I know today? The question arises not from regret, but from tenderness toward the young artist I once was and toward the many attachments surrounding success, identity, recognition, and self-sufficiency that I could then only sense but not fully understand.

Inspired by Saint Teresa of Ávila’s The Way of Perfection and other influential voices in Catholic spirituality, the book begins at the restless and unfinished place where the spiritual journey so often takes root. It follows the gradual realization that we are not the ultimate source of the gifts we carry, and that our deepest worth rests not in talent, productivity, recognition, or success, but in being before God.

Through a conversation that moves between past and present, The Way of Imperfection considers how suffering, forgiveness, and surrender may become places of transformation, and how grace continues to work through lives that remain unfinished.

In this light, imperfection is not a complacent indulgence in brokenness, but an openness through which grace may begin to work more freely. To be imperfect is to offer one’s unfinished self to the hands that alone can shape it without destroying it, knowing the vessel will always remain clay. And here, perhaps, the deepest paradox emerges: the true danger is not falling short, but succeeding without love.

Book cover photography by Fiorenzo Omenetto

"Vorrei"

Marco Pignataro
Jan 23, 2021
1 min read

Vorrei scegliere il cuore

senza il rapire del pianto

il sonno degli anni

il silenzio dei pini

i lamenti del vento

che solo Dio può capire

Vorrei piu luce d’autunno

e confini di sabbia

da i mie occhi ai tuoi occhi

mille sentieri di neve

e fraganze invernali

di ucelli smarriti

Vorrei una casa nel cielo

ed in ogni stanza stellata

sussurare un’amore

che dal tetto rifulga

mentre cerco la luna

disteso a sognare

Vorrei ogni goccia di vento

di che è e sarà

tutto quello che ho

Ciò che ho preso con me

Ciò che hai preso da me

senza dirmi perchè

(English Translation)

"I Wish"

I would like to choose the heart

without the rapture of tears

the sleep of the years

the silence of the pines

the moans of the wind

that only God can understand

I would like more autumn light

and borders of sand

from my eyes to your eyes

a thousand paths of snow

and winter fragrances

of birds who are lost

I would like a home in the sky

and in every starry room

whisper a love

that shines from the roof

while I look for the moon

lying down while I dream

I would like every drop of wind

what it is and will be

everything I have

what I took with me

what you took from me

without telling me why

poem & photography by Marco Pignataro

Book cover photography by Fiorenzo Omenetto

"Vorrei"

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