Something to Carry: Bracelets for the Unseen

The bonus track is above — “I Came Back for You.”Listen to that first.It came out beautiful, and it says something I’ve been carrying for a long time. In a lot of ways, it’s a song-story about me, about adoption, loneliness, and what it means to come back for the child you once were.This week’s episode of American Buddhist Poetry Radio is personal too.It’s about children living through foster care, adoption rupture, and unstable care. But more than that, it’s about the deeper wound underneath all of it — the loneliness, the emotional disappearance, the way a child learns not to ask for too much, not to expect anyone to stay, not to believe they are really seen.That’s the truth behind Bracelets for the Unseen.This episode is my way of opening that room carefully. Not with pity. Not with performance. Just truth, memory, compassion, and a vow that is starting to take real form.If the song opens your chest, let it. Then go into the episode.And if this lives somewhere in your story too — or if something in you understands why a small thing can matter so much in a child’s life — reach out to me. This mission is only beginning, and I’m building it with intention. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monkmodesociety.substack.com/subscribe