Sole to Soul: Mending Our Treasures, Repairing Ourselves

Keeping family relationships and friendships in good repair can be tough, particularly in this age when so many people buy into the slogan, “The personal is political.” SeventyFour/Shutterstock

“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”

Some of us still practice the frugality of that New England proverb. We wear a favorite sweatshirt until it’s falling apart, we keep our fingers crossed and hope our 10-year-old pickup truck has another year or two of life, we patch up a favorite recliner with duct tape and sink into it for a nap.