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

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have technology to erase it.”

I didn’t realize it then, but that sentence was the mantra of the modern American age. Suffering is unnecessary when we can erase it. We don’t heal the injury; we numb the nerve. We don’t fix the relationship; we swipe left. We don’t repair the door; we move house.


The fallout was immediate.

My neighbor—the one who suggested continue reading …

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