The Lesson of the Clothespin: Refusing to Discard the Broken Things in a Throwaway Culture

plastic toy, I had won the war. But I was naïve. I hadn’t won the war; I had simply drawn a battle line in a skirmish that the rest of the world was fighting on the opposite side.

The “Indestructible” chew toy was just a symptom. The disease was much pervasive, and as the months rolled on, I realized that my refusal to throw Gable away was an act of continue reading …