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

new thing. It comes from the old thing that you refused to give up on. It comes from the pride of looking at a scar—on a dog, on a doorframe, on a relationship—and saying, “I was there when that happened. And I stayed until it healed.”

We are being sold a life that is easy to enter and easy to exit. Frictionless.

But friction is where the heat comes continue reading …