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

were all identical. Manicured lawns. Ring doorbells watching with unblinking blue eyes. Amazon packages piled on doorsteps, containing things that would be in a landfill within eighteen months.

I realized then that I wasn’t just fighting for a dog. I was fighting for the right to be imperfect in a world that demanded seamless, frictionless, high-definition continue reading …