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

at the pile of things waiting to be fixed, I realize that the neighbor, the vet, and the girl from the dating app were all victims of a lie.

The lie is that if you buy the right things, purge the difficult things, and curate your life perfectly, you will be happy.

The truth is messier.

Happiness—the deep, marrow-kind of happiness—doesn’t come from the continue reading …