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

dog? That’s so noble. I tried that once. Got a Lab mix. But he chewed my favorite heels, the red bottoms? I had to give him back. I just couldn’t deal with the negativity in my space.”

I felt my stomach tighten. “You gave him back because of shoes?”

“They were twelve hundred dollars, Leo,” she said, laughing as if I were the crazy one. “Besides, it wasn’t continue reading …