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

rebellion that made people uncomfortable.

It started on a Tuesday, three months after the “clothespin epiphany.”

I was sitting in the sterile, fluorescent-lit examination room of a veterinary clinic that looked more like an Apple Store than a place for animals. Stainless steel, white minimalist counters, and a smell that wasn’t antiseptic—it was the continue reading …