Sole to Soul: Mending Our Treasures, Repairing Ourselves

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
Jeff Minick
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“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.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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